Commandant Of Auschwitz
commandant of auschwitz
$34.94
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2000
Summary
The Auschwitz Commandant: His Own Account
An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed. Before this he had worked in other concentration camps, and afterwards he was at the Inspectorate in Berlin. He thus knew more, both at first-…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842120248 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1842120247 |
| Series: | Age of Dictators 1920-1945 |
| Author: | Rudolf Hoess |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2000 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 139mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
The chilling narrative presents a graphic and compelling self-portrait of the Nazi war criminal who oversaw Auschwitz concentration camp * JEWISH BOOK WORLD *This book is filled with evil … the author comes across as what he is: a coarse, stupid, arrogant, long winded scoundrel … and yet it is one of the most instructive books ever published – Primo Levi
About The Author
Rudolf Hoess
Rudolf Hoess was the Commandant of Auschwitz during the war. He was executed in Poland upon concluding these memoirs.
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