BOOK DESCRIPTION: Verlag der Nation, Berlin. 1967. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First edition, First Printing. 7 3/4 x 9 1/4 ". 272 pages with numrous black and white and colour photographs throughout. Text by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. Photographs by Gerd Heidemann, Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann and various other photographers.Published in communist East-Germany, Kannibalen details 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. 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.