MES PRISONS ET DACHAU - Brussels 1946 - Copy with the author's signature

MES PRISONS ET DACHAU - Brussels 1946 - Copy with the author's signature

MES PRISONS ET DACHAU - My imprisonment in Dachau By Abbe Charles MAUROY Brussels, January, 1946. Illustrations by Leopold EGOM - from the early testimonies of what happened in the Dachau death camp. Signed by the author on the title page.

The testimony of a Belgian prisoner who was arrested by the Gestapo on espionage charges, transferred to the Dachau death camp and detained there for four years, describing in detail the severe torture he and his friends experienced in the camp. He describes how, following the severe famine, he lost only 48 kilograms "during my four years in captivity I never experienced a week of adequate nutrition", and how the "meals" they received at the camp were unsatisfactory, His friends and him fed on weeds grown in the camp. And there were even prisoners who used to drink the yellow glue that was used to stick envelopes to feel something of fluid in the body. Mauroy describes severe scenes of quarrels between the prisoners over garbage they used to eat such as potato peels, and bread crumbs left on the table, and so on. And about the most difficult body conditions - Slight incision in human flesh, his recovery time in the camp lasted six months due to sub-substances in the body, and how day by day the deaths in the camp increased.

Mauroy tells among other things, how in February 1942 the prisoners were forced to sign forms in which they approached their familys informing them that they were no longer allowed to receive letters from their relatives, and how this was intended to break the familys who remained free. Prisoners were forbidden to be in contact with prisoners in other cells. For two whole years he did not think at all about his family, and began in November 1944 when it was clear that the war was coming to an end, over the grave fear of mass execution by the Nazis.

The book in which he tells the story of his survival, countless times he survived death, began to be written immediately upon his release from the camp, and was published only eight months after his release.

On the cover is the Nazi party symbol 'Party Eagle' (unlike the 'Reich Eagle' facing its right, the party eagle facing its left, hinting the author that the Nazi party was responsible for Nazi crimes even before the German Reich), against a background of a skull and camp wall, On the page after the title page, the author's illustration emerges from the letter [V] Victory emanating from a hoop made of Allied flags, and his hands free from his handcuffs.

82 [6] p. 22 cm. Good condition.