Together three works.

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 106

(HOLOCAUST)

Together three works.

First two include transcripts from the trials, as well as photographs of the victims of atrocities. <<*>> The Trial in the Case of the Atrocities Committed by the German Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices in Krasnodar and Krasnodar Territory, July 14 to 17, 1943. Photographic plates. pp. 40. Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1943. <<*.>> The Trial in the Case of the Atrocities Committed by the German Fascist Invaders in the City of Kharkov and in the Kahrkov Region, December 15-18, 1943. Photographic plates. pp. 84. Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1944. <<*>> B. Etcher [i.e. Bohuslav Ečer]. The Lessons of the Kharkov Trial. pp. 16. London, 1944. Ex-library. Original printed wrappers. 8vo.

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Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Two contemporary accounts of the first war crime trials held against Nazi defendants, following Russian recapture of Soviet territory. During their occupation, SS units had massacred thousands of Russians, especially Jews and Communists. The trials, held by a Soviet military Court, were conducted while the war against Hitler was still ongoing. These two war crimes trials were held almost two years prior to far better known Nuremberg Trials. Author of the third pamphlet, Bohuslav Ečer (1893-1954), was chairman of the Czechoslovakian delegation at the International Military Tribunal for the punishment of war criminals at Nuremberg.