Six Million Did Die

The first edition, published in October 1976, which was widely commended as a significant legal and historical contribution to the study of the Holocaust, is now out of print. This new edition is substantially identical with the earlier edition, save in two important respects.

Shortly after the publication of the first edition, Mr D.B Sole, South African Ambassador at Washington, drew our attention to what proved to be drew our attention to what proved to be most important piece of documentary evidence, the existence of which we were previously unaware.

On the eve of the German capitulation, the South African High Commissioner in London, at the instance of the South African Government, instructed officials attached to South Africa House to visit certain concentration camps in Germany and to compile a fully documented report, based both on their own findings and on investigations then being undertaken at the instance of other Governments and Commissions.

In May 1945, the officials concerned, Mr Stoffel Coetzee, Mr R. J. Montgomery (the present South African Ambassador in Lisbon) and Mr D. B. Sole, visited the concentration camps at Dachau and Belsen.

Their findings and conclusions were subsequently published as a Parliamentary Report entitled: "Report on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Ger-many: Illustrated by Photographs (Published by Authority); Cape Times Ltd., Cape Town, 1945.

The Report includes not only the findings and conclusions of the South African investigators, but also the reports (or extracts therefrom of no fewer than four other bodies which investigated certain of the camps at the time.