The Black Book - Nuremberg Trials - Rare photo booklet. Paris, 1946

The Black Book - Nuremberg Trials - Rare photo booklet. Paris, 1946

Le livre noir - 100 documents prodigieux sur le plus grand procès de l'histoire - The Black Book - 100 iconic documents about the greatest lawsuit in history, edited by Georges Vikar. An early and rare photo booklet that came out during the Nuremberg trials before the verdict was handed down. Paris, 1946. French.

A rare booklet of press photographs taken by the Allied Photography Agency KEYSTONE ASSOCIATED PRESS during the war and during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals at the end of the war, and historical details revealed during the trial that led to the conviction of the Gestapo and the German Reich High Command – the greatest war criminals in human history. The booklet opens with brief information about the role of each and every defendant in the Third Reich, along with a photograph of him from the Nuremberg courthouse. In addition, there are rare photographs of the persecution of Jews, their annihilation, and the looting of Jewish property, the shocking photograph found in the uniform of an SS soldier, showing a Jew on fire throwing himself out of a window during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, various photographs of the Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg courtroom and of the judges who sentenced them, photographs of the prosecutors in the trial - the English, American, Russian, and French prosecutors, as well as a photograph of the German lawyers who came to defend the Nazi war criminals, Photographs showing American soldiers guarding the defendants' cells, and more.

Among other things, there is an extensive chapter about German Air Force Commander Hermann Göring and excerpts from his arrogant speech in court: "I was personally responsible for the rise to power of the Nazi Party... I was the one who raised Hitler to his supreme power, I did it in order to promote a strong Germany, and so that my homeland would finally receive its rightful place in the world..." he said. There is a chapter on the crimes of Himmler, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and Dr. Lee in which speculation is written about their whereabouts at the time or the possibility of their suicide at the end of the war. Also written is about Rudolf Hess's crimes and his crazy behavior in court, details of the counts on which each and every one of the defendants was accused, a chapter reviewing the contradictory testimony of the head of the Nazi criminal Wehrmacht High Command William Keitel, and more. At the end of the booklet is a large photograph of a document with the signatures of each of the accused, and more.

On the cover of the booklet is a photomontage of an Allied soldier holding the hanging rope in his hands against the background of a photograph of the Nazi masses giving a Nazi salute in loyalty to Fuhrer.

Rare. Does not appear in the National Library. Only four entries in the World Cat Library catalog. One of the rarest and earliest publications that came out during the trial itself.

[63] p. 28 cm. Good condition - Very Good.