Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at AuschwitzPrometheus Books, 1992 - 390 sidor By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Hoss was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first complete translation of Hoss's memoirs into English. The Memoirs of Kommandant Rudolf Hoss were written between October 1946 and April 1947. At the suggestion of psychologist Professor Stanislaw Batawia and Professor Jan Sehn, the prosecuting attorney for the Polish War Crimes Commission in Warsaw, Hoss wrote explanations of how the camp developed, his impressions of the various personalities with whom he dealt, and even about the destruction of the millions in the gas chambers. This written testimony is perhaps the most important document attesting to the Holocaust, because it is the only candid, detailed, and (for the most part) honest description of the Final Solution from a high-ranking SS officer intimately involved in carrying out the plans of Hitler and Himmler. With the cold objectivity of a common hit-man, Kommandant Hoss bloodlessly chronicles the discovery of the most effective poison gas and the technical obstacles that often thwarted his aim to kill as efficiently as possible. Staring at the horror without reacting, Hoss allows conditions in his camp to reduce human beings to walking skeletons, then he labels them as subhumans fit only to die. Readers will witness Hoss's shallow rationalizations as he tries to balance his deeds with his increasingly disturbed, yet always ineffectual, conscience. Published here for the first time are several photographs, including those of Hoss, the Nazi occupation of Poland, and of the camp itself; original diagrams of the camps; the original minutes of the Wannsee conference; and Hoss's final letters. |
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... barracks were crammed to capacity right after their completion , while mountains of unsorted items piled up outside between the buildings.35 In spite of the enlarged sorting Kommandos , it was im- possible to complete the job during the ...
... barracks were crammed to capacity right after their completion , while mountains of unsorted items piled up outside between the buildings.35 In spite of the enlarged sorting Kommandos , it was im- possible to complete the job during the ...
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... barracks near the wire barrier . They succeeded in digging a tunnel underneath the bar- rier into the nearby forest and escaped during the night . They spread the earth dug from the tunnel under the barracks , which was raised on ...
... barracks near the wire barrier . They succeeded in digging a tunnel underneath the bar- rier into the nearby forest and escaped during the night . They spread the earth dug from the tunnel under the barracks , which was raised on ...
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... barracks used as a holding center was called the " Isolation Station . " It was surrounded by a wall . Prisoners from all over the camp were brought there . The barracks was always overcrowded . Each time the trucks came , 90 percent of ...
... barracks used as a holding center was called the " Isolation Station . " It was surrounded by a wall . Prisoners from all over the camp were brought there . The barracks was always overcrowded . Each time the trucks came , 90 percent of ...
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Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz Rudolf Hoss Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2012 |
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz Rudolf Höss Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1992 |
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