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People in Auschwitz / Hermann Langbein ; translated by Harry Zohn ; foreward by Henry Friedlander.

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People in Auschwitz is very different from other works on the most infamous of Nazi annihilation centers. Langbein's account is a scrupulously scholarly achievement interwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military p...

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Online Access: Online Access (via Alexander Street Press)
Main Author: Langbein, Hermann, 1912-1995
Other Authors: Zohn, Harry (Translator), Friedlander, Henry, 1930-2012 (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Table of 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.

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