Gerhard Scheumann, Walter Heynowski - Kannibalen (GDR/DDR PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOK, ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET) - 1967

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Important photobook title:
Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 3, page 192

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Eastern Bloc propaganda against US-American imperialism in Vietnam and the Congo.
German language album which is a photo-record with extensive text compiled by Heynowski and Scheumann of the Congo/Ruanda-Urundi crisis; a period of turmoil, massacres, violence and crimes against humanity, that began in Congo-Léopoldville that began with national independence from Belgium in 1960 and ended with the seizing of power by Joseph Mobutu.

Together with Gerhard Scheumann (1930-1998), Walter Heynowski, born 1927, is one of the most famous and important documentary and propaganda film directors of the GDR. He also worked on numerous films as a lyricist, scenarist, screenwriter and producer.

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Verlag der Nation, Berlin. 1967. First edition, first and only printing.

Hardback with dark blue cloth and jacket. 196 x 236 mm. 272 pages. Numerous black and white and colour photographs. Text by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. Photographs by Gerd Heidemann, Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann and various photographers. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, very fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket much fresher and better than usual and complete, still very impressive; light yellowing at the left edge of the front, small (surfact) rubbing at the top of the spine (so white now), no missing parts. Overall in fine condition.

Scarce, deeply impressive German photobook - with the very scarce original dustjacket.
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The images and text focus upon foreign mercenaries, local african regular troops and police-forces and african child-sodiersforced into privately funded and organized by locally formed armed groups, German language album which is a photo-record with extensive text compiled by Heynowski and Scheumann, after original photographs originally collected by those individuals that took part in the mass-killings of anyone who did not fit the "patterns", men, boys, girls, women, old peolple, military and civilians. Photographs were taken and collected in private albums by common troops and higly educated belligerents from african descent. The nature of the illustrations is of unspeakable cruelty.