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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Langbein, Hermann, 1912-1995. People in Auschwitz. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ©2004 (OCoLC)607138027 Online version: Langbein, Hermann, 1912-1995. People in Auschwitz. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ©2004 (OCoLC)607138035 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hermann Langbein |
| ISBN: | 0807828165 9780807828168 9781469628370 1469628376 |
| OCLC Number: | 53045244 |
| Description: | xvi, 549 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Author's rationale -- The camp and its jargon -- The history of the extermination camp -- Numbers -- The prisoners -- Under the power of the camp -- The Muselmann -- The inmate and death -- Music and games -- Canada -- The VIPs -- Jewish VIPs -- Creating accomplices -- The Sonderkommando -- The inmate infirmary -- Those born in Auschwitz -- Resistance -- The jailers -- The guards -- People, not devils -- The commandant -- SS leaders -- Physicians in the SS -- Dr. Wirths -- Subordinates of the SS leaders -- Sexuality -- Reactions of human nature -- Frank and Pestek -- Civilians in Auschwitz -- Afterward -- Inmates after liberation -- SS members after the war -- Conclusion and warning. |
| Other Titles: | Menschen in Auschwitz. |
| Responsibility: | Hermann Langbein ; translated by Harry Zohn ; foreword by Henry Friedlander. |
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Hermann Langbein, then a communist activist, was a leading member of the underground movement in Auschwitz concentration camp, and an acute observer of the situation there. His memoir is one of the foundation stones of research on Auschwitz, an indispensable contribution to the complex and fearsome reality of the camp.(Yehuda Bauer, director of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem) The preparation of this classic for the English-speaking world makes one of the most important and powerful survivor accounts of Auschwitz accessible to the West, and introduces general readers to the mind and experience of a crucially placed and astonishingly observant witness to the Holocaust. In the first-person literature created by survivors and victims in the ghettos and concentration camps, "People in Auschwitz" ranks as an historical document with works like "The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow", and the memoirs of Buchenwald survivor Eugen Kogon, "The Theory and Practice of Hell". Langbein's epic, at long last, also serves as a moral antidote and historical counterweight to the memoirs of the notorious Commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hoess, first published nearly fifty years ago.(Charles W. Sydnor Jr., author of "Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945") Read more...
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