War Against War/Guerre a la Guerre/Kreig dem Kreige/Krig mot Krigen.

Berlin: International War Museum, (1926). Edition unclear but copyrighted in 1926. The title page lists 4 printings with a total of 200,000 copies printed. Octavo. 247, [1,ad] pp. Printed in four languages, the books leans heavily on photographic images taken by Friedrich himself to elucidate the horrors of war-it contains 187 images. Publisher's black cloth spine with red spine lettering, front bears a laid down photographic plate bearing the title in red and four war images. Front tips bumped, general surface wear but a very good copy.Freidrich's main work. Ernst Friedrich was born in 1894 in Wroc aw and studied to become a printer but did not finish his printer apprenticeship and started working in a factory as a manual worker. In 1911 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany but quickly left the party when it officially supported the taking out of war loans. As a close friend of Karl Liebknecht he often worked with trade unions and was a well-known and important person in the anarchist community. In 1919, he took control by force of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth) centre in Berlin and converted it into a meeting place for revolutionary artists and young people with an anti-authoritarian mindset. He also launched travelling anti-war exhibitions and organized public readings of texts written by Maxim Gorki, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy.In 1924 Friedrich published an album entitled Krieg dem Kriege (War Against War) containing more than 180 photos acquired from the German military and medical archives. This anti-war publication which used photography as a medium to expose the readers to shock therapy and condemn the barbaric war ideology quickly attracted the attention of the authorities. Soon after being published, it was entered on the list of prohibited books. As a result, in many cities the police attacked bookstores and destroyed all copies of the book and public display of the photographs from Krieg dem Kriege was subject to a fine.In 1925, in continuation of the efforts to enact his pacifistic vision, Ernst Friedrich opened the Anti-kriegsmuseum (Anti-War Museum) in Berlin, at 29 Parochialstrasse where he presented photos from his album in addition to a handful of objects related to the cult of war. He was also an anarchist and as such was hounded out of Nazi Germany.