First Yiddish edition. Original boards. 8vo. 327 pages; illustrations. 21cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "The Scourge of the Swastika: A Brief History of Nazi War Crimes during WWII, " which was the original title when the work was issued in the original English. Here it is translated for a Jewish audience in the first decade of the State of Israels existence. "Born Edward Frederick Langley Russell in 1895, Lord Russell was educated at Oxford University. He served in both world wars, retiring as a brigadier general, and in between qualified as a barrister, rising in 1948 to the position of judge advocate general. But he was best known for his 15 books. The greatest sensation in his legal career came when he was assistant judge advocate general in 1954 and legal adviser to the Commander in Chief for the trial of World War II Nazi war criminals in the British zone in Germany. While in this position, he wrote ''Scourge of the Swastika, '' which condemned Nazi atrocities. The Lord Chancellor asked him to withdraw the book, but Lord Russell refused and resigned his office instead. The book was later published in 16 editions, including foreign languages and Braille. Lord Russell said the publication was an attempt to show that the war crimes were the natural outgrowth of the Nazi master-race doctrine and that the German people had endured a reign of terror (NY Times, 1981) . " SUBJECTS: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany. Atrocities. Samp stains throughout. Boards are warped. Internally Very Good. Overall Good- Condition. (YID-27-43)