Commandant of Auschwitz
the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
by Rudolf Höss
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Rudolf Hoess was the notorious Commandant of Auschwitz. Imprisoned and awaiting execution after the war, Hoess wrote a long memoir, a self-serving account of his life and approaches to management. The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnel factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death, shot or quickly gassed--is still almost beyond belief today. Here, noted writer Jürg Amann has distilled Hoess' memoir into an illuminating new work. The Commandant is a book Hoess would certainly not have approved--a chilling insight into Hitler's Final Solution and the nature of evil itself through the prism of the Nazis' totalitarian system, one Hoess and so many others felt no requirement to question. Ian Buruma's afterword sets this frightening excerpt within a broader moral and historical context.--From publisher description.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp), German Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners and prisons, German, War criminals, World War, 1939-1945, Concentration camp commandants, Biography, Oświȩcim (Concentration camp), German Prison and prisons, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, Persecutions, Jews, biography, Germany, biography, Nazis, German Personal narratives, Personal narratives, Nazi concentration camp commandants, Personal narratives, German, Biography: general, European history: Second World War, The Holocaust, Historical - Holocaust, Biography & Autobiography, 1900-1947, Biography / Autobiography, Historical - General, Biography/Autobiography, Poland, Military, Military - World War II, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, STUDY AIDS - Advanced Placement, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, Concentration camps, Internment camps, Mass Murder on a super scale!, Personalnarratives, German, Pamiętnik, Relacje osobiste, Konzentrationslager AuschwitzPeople
Rudolf Höss (1900-1947), Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, Soviet Prisoners of war, Homosexuals, intellectuals, Nazi's, Rudolf Höss, Rudolf Höß (1901-1947)Showing 6 featured editions. View all 42 editions?
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Wyznania spod szubienicy: autobiografia Rudolfa Hössa komendanta KL Auschwitz : spisane w krakowskim więzieniu Montelupich
2012, Mireki
in Polish
8389533987 9788389533982
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Commandant of Auschwitz: the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
2000, Phoenix Press
in English
1842120247 9781842120248
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Kommandant in Auschwitz: Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen des Rudolf Hoss
1998-12-31, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.
in English
3423029080 9783423029087
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Death dealer: the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
1996, Da Capo Press
in English
- 1st Da Capo Press ed.
0306806983 9780306806988
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Death dealer: the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
1992, Prometheus Books
in English
0879757140 9780879757144
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