Buchenwald Camp. The Report of a Parliamentary Delegation.

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art

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Lot 125
(HOLOCAUST).

Buchenwald Camp. The Report of a Parliamentary Delegation.

pp. 8. Original printed wrappers, some wear and minor tears at edges. 8vo.

London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1945

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $650
German concentration camp located outside Weimar, Buchenwald was liberated by American forces on April 11th 1945. Nine days later, a delegation of British Parliamentarians were sent by Winston Churchill to “have ocular and first-hand proof of (the) atrocities.” This, the delegates’ report, closes: “We have endevoured to write with restraint and objectivity…(however) the memory of what we saw and heard at Buchenwald will haunt us ineffaceably for many years.”