New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 175 pages.

Renowned journalist and photographer Margaret Bourke-White's stunning report on conquered Germany at the end of World War II. She was sent on assignment with LIFE Magazine to gain an understanding of the German private citizenry and "to find out what kind of human being it was who, multiplied by millions, made up the Nazi terror."

She interviewed and photographed innumerable Germans, from once-mighty Nazi "Brains" to plain ("non-political!") villagers to mild-faced laborers. What she found and recorded was a physical and spiritual chamber of horrors where people whose faces are as usual and recognizable as one's neighbors', but whose reactions to their situation seem detached from reality.

Includes 128 of Bourke-White's captioned photographs, from portraits to ruined cities to macabre concentration camp scenes. An important document on the German mindset at end of the war, gathered first hand.

Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards with maroon titling on spine and upper board. Mild browning to endpapers along inner hinges, a few shallow bumps at spine ends, and a prior owner name neatly penned on front pastedown. Jacket has minor edge wear with a bit of sun fading to spine.

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