Haulot (Arthur); Kuci (Ali) Dachau
£450
Brussels, Editions Est-Ouest, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
Scarce; OCLC locates only 5 copies in the US (USHMM, JHU, Hoover, LOC Harvard). One of the earliest substantial eyewitness accounts of Dachau, published only months after its liberation by American forces in April 1945. Arthur Haulot, a Belgian journalist and resistance member, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and deported first to Mauthausen and then to Dachau. There he served as a nurse and helped found the International Prisoners’ Committee. After liberation he remained in the camp to assist with its administration before returning to Brussels in June 1945. Haulot later travelled in Germany as a witness at the Dachau trials and wrote extensively on the atrocities of the Nazi regime and its assault on fundamental freedoms.
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