The Photographer of Mauthausen OGN
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| Artist | Salva Rubio, Pedro Colombo |
| Cover Price | $19.95 |
This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, where he spent the war among thousands of other Spaniards and other prisoners. More than half of them would lose their lives there. Through an odd turn of events, Boix finds himself the confidant of an SS officer who is documenting prisoner deaths at the camp. Boix realizes that he has a chance to prove Nazi war crimes by stealing the negatives of more
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The Graphic Library - Sara Campbell
Dec 17, 2020This novel is strikingly authentic - Colombo is not shy about illustrating the detailed horrors of how men died in these camps, and the effect is somewhat like the people who do not want to see Boix' photographs. As an audience who hasn't experienced anything like The Holocaust, it is difficult to see these images and to wrap our minds around how the Nazis acted and felt about the different groups they persecuted. But, this topic deserves to be showcased in its uncensored way so as not to sugar-coat any part of the atrocities of what happened. Boix is probably not someone who gets studied in history class, but he is an important figure and a main reason we have any information from the workings of Mauthausen. Read Full Review
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