Kannibalen by Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann
Publisher: Verlag der Nation, Berlin
Year: 1967
Format: Hardcover
Edition: First
Condition: Fair, wear to dust jacket and 1.5cm tear which has been archivally repaired. Interior very good.
Kannibalen was published in 1967, two years after West German journalists Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann produced Der Lachende Mann (The Laughing Man) a documentary expose of Siegfried 'Kongo' Muller. Muller, an Ex Nazi was leader of Kommando 52, a white mercenary group, involved in the suppression of the Simba Rebellion in the Congo. Kannibalen book acts as a sobering document of the brutality and cruelty of Muller's and his group's actions.