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Marie, René (foreword)

Marie, René (foreword); Escale a Nuremberg. OFLAG XIII A - BLOC VI. Paris, Éditions Jacques Vautrin, MCMXLV, (1945). First edition.
Softbound, small, folio in publisher's illustrated, grey, wrappers. These a bit soiled and with a few short tears to extremities. Fine interior. A remarkable document created by the French prisoners in the concentration camp OFLAG XII A, BLOC VI, in Nürnberg during the second world war. Articles, plays, poems, essays. Illusatrations in black and white and colour with woodcuts, drawings and paintings. The double-paged frontispiece is a drawn railway map in colour showing the way til Nurnberg and Bloxk VI. It has the title: "l'itinéraire des trains de plaisir." This is copy number 294 in the original edition. (II), 154 p. , (IV).