"The Slaughterhouse of Treblinka - Three Million Dead in the Gas Chambers" - One of the First Reports on the Nazi ...

"The Slaughterhouse of Treblinka - Three Million Dead in the Gas Chambers" - One of the First Reports on the Nazi Atrocities Committed Against Jews in Treblinka Camp

Dokumente der Nazi-Barbarei – DAS MENSCHENSCHLACHTHAUS TREBLINKA Drei Millionen sterben in den Gaskammern – "The Slaughterhouse of Treblinka – Three Million Dead in the Gas Chambers", Published by Stern. Vienna, 1946. A detailed report compiled by W. Grossman on the extermination process carried out by the Nazis in Treblinka camp. Published during the Nuremberg Trials, aiming to expose to the world the undeniable horrors committed by the Nazi criminals and to counter their attempts at denial. German. Rare.

"This report tells the story of the German extermination camp Treblinka, which the SS and Gestapo called the slaughterhouse. It is a documentation of horrific crimes, countless murders... inhuman cruelty, and immense human suffering inflicted by the Nazi fascists upon defenseless and innocent people. Human language is insufficient to describe all the terrible agony endured by the unfortunate victims in the hours between their arrival and their mass grave. The world will likely never fully know the extent of the crimes committed in this camp. If someone were able to record in detail the testimonies of all eyewitnesses, it would fill an entire library. For in Treblinka, the SS and Gestapo rampaged without limits and without restraint. They would have continued their rampage indefinitely and without boundaries had this camp not been destroyed by a massive uprising of the desperate prisoners, whose fate was sealed...Treblinka must serve as both a reminder and a commitment for all our people to fight relentlessly and mercilessly against fascism in all its forms. Eleven million people who perished in the German concentration camps call upon us: stay vigilant, fulfill our legacy, and eradicate the remnants of fascism. Prevent humanity from falling into barbarism once again!" (From the introduction).

Grossman interviewed eyewitnesses to the atrocities of Treblinka, some of whom were escaped prisoners, while others were freed at the war’s end. They provided detailed accounts of the extermination process in the camp. These were prisoners who fled from Camp No. 1 in July 1944 as Soviet forces approached and later gave comprehensive testimonies after the war. They described the Nazis' sadistic torture methods, provided the names of officers, and recounted the brutal abuses inflicted on inmates in harrowing detail. Also included are testimonies from Jewish prisoners of the infamous Camp No. 2, which housed the crematorium and from which almost no one survived. (The Germans strictly forbade any approach to the camp—passersby within a one-kilometer radius were shot on sight, and even German aircraft were prohibited from flying over the area). It was a sterilized zone of daily mass murder. The Jewish victims transported in train convoys of sixty carriages had no idea they were minutes away from death. The report details how Treblinka served as the primary extermination site for the Jewish population of Poland, Germany, and the western regions of Belarus from the ghettos. Testimonies were collected on how the Jews of Warsaw, Radom, Częstochowa, Lublin, Białystok, Grodno, and dozens of small towns—workers, craftsmen, doctors, professors, architects, engineers, artists, and businessmen—were deported with their entire families on the death trains to Treblinka. Additionally, the report describes the second phase of the extermination program, when trains from Western Europe—France, Bulgaria, and Austria—arrived at Treblinka packed with Jewish deportees. It outlines every stage, from the Jews' arrival at the camp, the music played by an orchestra upon their disembarkation, the looting of their possessions, the shaving of their hair, the release of attack dogs on newly arrived prisoners, horrifying torture methods, and finally, their forced march to the gas chambers. The report also details the methods the Germans used to erase evidence of their crimes, including blowing up the gas chambers, demolishing the station building, and dismantling the railway tracks. At the time of this publication, the documentary Death Mills, recorded by the Allied forces during the liberation of concentration camps, was being screened as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials. The witnesses interviewed for this report provided supplementary information to that presented in the film.

The book’s striking cover design by BF features the ‘death train’ arriving at the camp, with prisoners engulfed in flames from the crematorium.

53 [3] pages. Very good condition.