People in Auschwitz

Author: Hermann Langbein

Hermann Langbein, interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, was assigned as a clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex. This role 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. 

Langbein’s account is a scholarly achievement intertwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military personnel, and official documents. Whether recounting deals with captors or inmates, Langbein analyzes the events and their context objectively, in an unemotional style, rendering a narrative that is unique in the history of the Holocaust. 

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568 pages