Escape From Hell : : The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol / / Alfréd Wetzler.
A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met. “Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth about the...
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Wetzler, Alfréd, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Escape From Hell : The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol / Alfréd Wetzler. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource (292 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Just for Work -- 2 Work – German Style -- 3 An Exalted Visit -- 4 An Even More Exalted Visit -- 5 The Ceremonial -- 6 A More or Less Normal Evening -- 7 Two Thousand Metres of Track -- 8 To Die – or to Perish? -- 9 ‘In the Name of Reichsführer SS’ -- 10 Danger: Live Ammunition! -- 11 Two against a Regiment -- 12 Death Lives on the Other Side -- 13 ‘Did You See It with Your Own Eyes?’ -- 14 ‘But What about the Postcards?’ -- 15 There are Limits to Human Imagination -- Appendix I: Photographs and Documents -- Appendix II: Auschwitz Protocol (Vrba-Wetzler Report) restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met. “Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder, led directly to saving the lives of 120,000 Jews…. No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them.”—Sir Martin Gilbert Together with another young Slovak Jew Rudolf Vrba, both deported in 1942, the author succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring of 1944. There were some very few successful escapes from Auschwitz during the war, but it was these two who smuggled out the damning evidence – a ground plan of the camp, constructional details of the gas chambers and crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Cyclone gas. The book is cast in the form of a novel to allow information not personally collected by the two fugitives but provided for them by a handful of reliable friends, to be included. Nothing, however, has been invented. From the Introduction by Dr. Robert Rozett Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of Auschwitz, and especially, his and Vrba's harrowing flight to Slovakia. The day-by-day account of the tremendous difficulties the pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching. [.] Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity and valor of two young men, who sought to inform the world about the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow humans. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Poland. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German. HISTORY / Jewish. bisacsh 1944. adolf hitler. auschwitz witness. auschwitz. concentration camps. death camps. escape from auschwitz. european history. european jews. fred wetzler. gas chambers. holocaust survivor. holocaust. hungarian jews. imprisonment. mass murder. memoirs. modern german history. nazi genocide. nazi germany. prison escape. rudolf vrba. ss. vrba-wetzler report. war crimes. world war 2. ww 2. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110998283 ZDB-23-BHBO print 9781845451837 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209433?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789209433 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789209433/original |
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