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Crimes Hitlériens: Grand Palais Exposition.

Auction 83 · Lot 80

Crimes Hitlériens: Grand Palais Exposition.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(HOLOCAUST).

Place

(Paris

Publication

1945)

Description

First edition. French text. Photographic illustrations throughout, especially relating to the French Resistance. Includes images from the Struthof concentration camp, tallies of deportations of French Jews, tallies of the numbers of forced laborers from France, etc.

summary

Catalogue of a huge exhibition sponsored by the newly liberated French government and held in Paris’s Grand-Palais, from June 10 until July 31, 1945. Includes chronology of the internment of Jews in the French camps of Pithiviers, Beuane-la-Rolande and Drancy, in the occupied zone; and at Gurs in Southwestern France under the rule of Vichy. It also provides a tally of deportations from Drancy to Germany.
pp. (32). Original pictorial wrappers. Sm. folio.
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