| Description |
ix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Primo Levi -- 1. The Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Concentration Camp Auschwitz -- 2. Early Years -- 3. An Early Traumatic Experience -- 4. World War I -- 5. Battles of the Free Corps -- 6. On Trial for Murder -- 7. In Prison -- 8. Insights into the Criminal Mind -- 9. Prison Psychosis -- 10. Model Prisoner -- 11. Freedom -- 12. The Artamans -- 13. Again a Soldier -- 14. The Early Concentration Camps -- 15. The Types of Guards -- 16. Experiences in Sachsenhausen -- 17. Kommandant of Auschwitz -- 18. The Russian Prisoners of War -- 19. The Gypsies -- 20. The Jews -- 21. The Women's Camp -- 22. The Gassings -- 23. Chief of the Department of Inspections of Concentration Camps -- 24. 1945-47 -- 25. Some Final Thoughts -- 26. Final Letters to His Wife and Children -- 27. Epilogue -- 28. Rules and Regulations for Concentration Camps. Purpose of the Camps. Organization of the Concentration Camps. Camp Punishments. Work Deployment |
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The Non-Medical Activities of the SS Doctors in Auschwitz -- 29. Organization Schmelt -- 30. Night and Fog - Meerschaum -- 31. Lebensborn -- 32. Explanation of the Three Concurrent SS Ranks -- 33. SS Tattoos -- Appendix I. Incident at Budy -- Appendix II. Chronology of the Important Events at Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Appendix III. Wannsee Conference Minutes |
| Notes |
Originally published: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-385) and index |
| Subject |
Höss, Rudolf, 1900-1947.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Concentration camp commandants -- Biography.
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Nazis -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| Author |
Paskuly, Steven.
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| LC no. |
95043204 |
| ISBN |
0306806983 |
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