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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Langbein, Hermann, 1912-1995, author.
Contributor:
Zohn, Harry, translator.
Friedlander, Henry, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (566 p.)
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents, conversations, and actions that would have remained unknown to history were it not for his witness and his subsequent research. Also a member of the Auschwitz resistance, Langbein sometimes found himself in a position to influence events, though at his peril.People in Auschwitz
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Foreword; INTRODUCTION; 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 Liberationss Members after the War; Conclusion and Warning; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [523]-536) and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9798890867926
9780807863633
0807863637
OCLC:
476236992

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