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The Buchenwald report, translated, edited, and with an introduction by David A. Hackett ; foreword by Frederick A. Praeger

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  • In the closing weeks of World War II, advancing Allied armies uncovered the horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The first camp to be liberated in western Germany was Buchenwald, on April 11, 1945. Within days, a special team of German-speaking intelligence officers from the U.S. Army was dispatched to Buchenwald to interview the prisoners there. In the short time available to them before the inmates' final release from the camp, this team was to prepare a report to be used against the Nazis in future war crimes trials. Nowhere else was such a systematic effort made to talk with prisoners and record their firsthand knowledge of the daily life, structure, and functioning of a concentration camp. The result was an important and unique document, The Buchenwald Report. Shockingly, not long after the war ended The Buchenwald Report was almost lost forever. Only selected portions were entered as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. Professor Eugen Kogon, a prisoner at Buchenwald who assisted the Army specialists in conducting their interviews and writing the report, made use of the material gathered as a background source for his classic book, The Theory and Practice of Hell, but subsequently his copy was accidently destroyed. Thus the complete report was never published, and both the original document and a precious handful of copies gradually disappeared. Recently--more than four decades later--a single, faded carbon copy was discovered, apparently the only one still in existence. It is translated from German and presented here in book form, as its authors intended, for the first time. The book is divided into two parts. The first, the Main Report, formally presents the interview team's findings. It describes in detail the camp's history, how it was organized and functioned, who the prisoners were, how they lived, and how they were treated by their Nazi captors. This part of the report is based on the camp's own incriminating files and records as well as on information obtained from the prisoners. The second part, the Individual Reports, is the heart of the book. Here are the eyewitness accounts of the camp inmates, statements taken while they were still behind the same barbed wire that had held them for so many years. The prisoners relate events so recent, so painful, that they can only speak with strong emotions but often with great eloquence. The interview team had the foresight to take these accounts and organize them according to specific topics, for example, forced labor, daily camp life, punishments, resistance, or SS guards. As a result, the book goes beyond simply a collection of individual stories, providing instead a well-rounded portrayal of every aspect of Buchenwald concentration camp from the prisoners' point of view. The Buchenwald Report is one of the most remarkable and important documents to emerge from the Holocaust and World War II. It is a deposition against the monstrous crimes of the Nazis, damning testimony provided by their intended victims in a final act of defiance. These are the voices of people courageous enough to tarry a while longer in hell, so that they could tell the world the truth at last. Perhaps they already sensed that, as Milan Kundera was to put it, "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." After fifty years, and too many lapses of memory, we know they were right.--Publisher description
  • Includes interviews with prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp describing their mistreatment and torture and details of the camp's history, function, and how it was run
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  • eng
  • ger
  • eng
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Publication
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xviii, 397 pages
Contents
  • Report on Buchenwald Concentration Camp at Weimar
  • Statistics and general information
  • Luxurious living and corruption of the SS
  • Daily life in camp
  • The work details
  • Punishments in camp
  • Sanitary and health questions
  • Special actions and special facilities
  • The antifascist struggle against the SS
  • Conditions during the war
  • The liberation of the camp
  • The case of Commandant Koch
  • Reports from other camps
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9780813333632
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The Buchenwald report
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The Buchenwald report
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translated, edited, and with an introduction by David A. Hackett ; foreword by Frederick A. Praeger
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  • eng
  • ger
  • eng
Summary
  • In the closing weeks of World War II, advancing Allied armies uncovered the horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The first camp to be liberated in western Germany was Buchenwald, on April 11, 1945. Within days, a special team of German-speaking intelligence officers from the U.S. Army was dispatched to Buchenwald to interview the prisoners there. In the short time available to them before the inmates' final release from the camp, this team was to prepare a report to be used against the Nazis in future war crimes trials. Nowhere else was such a systematic effort made to talk with prisoners and record their firsthand knowledge of the daily life, structure, and functioning of a concentration camp. The result was an important and unique document, The Buchenwald Report. Shockingly, not long after the war ended The Buchenwald Report was almost lost forever. Only selected portions were entered as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. Professor Eugen Kogon, a prisoner at Buchenwald who assisted the Army specialists in conducting their interviews and writing the report, made use of the material gathered as a background source for his classic book, The Theory and Practice of Hell, but subsequently his copy was accidently destroyed. Thus the complete report was never published, and both the original document and a precious handful of copies gradually disappeared. Recently--more than four decades later--a single, faded carbon copy was discovered, apparently the only one still in existence. It is translated from German and presented here in book form, as its authors intended, for the first time. The book is divided into two parts. The first, the Main Report, formally presents the interview team's findings. It describes in detail the camp's history, how it was organized and functioned, who the prisoners were, how they lived, and how they were treated by their Nazi captors. This part of the report is based on the camp's own incriminating files and records as well as on information obtained from the prisoners. The second part, the Individual Reports, is the heart of the book. Here are the eyewitness accounts of the camp inmates, statements taken while they were still behind the same barbed wire that had held them for so many years. The prisoners relate events so recent, so painful, that they can only speak with strong emotions but often with great eloquence. The interview team had the foresight to take these accounts and organize them according to specific topics, for example, forced labor, daily camp life, punishments, resistance, or SS guards. As a result, the book goes beyond simply a collection of individual stories, providing instead a well-rounded portrayal of every aspect of Buchenwald concentration camp from the prisoners' point of view. The Buchenwald Report is one of the most remarkable and important documents to emerge from the Holocaust and World War II. It is a deposition against the monstrous crimes of the Nazis, damning testimony provided by their intended victims in a final act of defiance. These are the voices of people courageous enough to tarry a while longer in hell, so that they could tell the world the truth at last. Perhaps they already sensed that, as Milan Kundera was to put it, "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." After fifty years, and too many lapses of memory, we know they were right.--Publisher description
  • Includes interviews with prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp describing their mistreatment and torture and details of the camp's history, function, and how it was run
Biography type
contains biographical information
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DLC
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940.53/1743226
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index present
Language note
Translation of: Bericht über das Konzentrationslager Buchenwald bei Weimar
LC call number
D805.G3
LC item number
B7746 1995
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Hackett, David A.
  • Mazal Holocaust Collection
  • Allied Forces
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  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Buchenwald (Allemagne : Camp de concentration)
  • Weimar-Buchenwald
  • Waffen-SS
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
  • Concentratiekampen
  • Misdrijven tegen de mensheid
  • Oorlogsmisdaden
  • Alltag
  • Konzentrationslager
  • Nationalsozialismus
  • Zwangsarbeiter
  • Germany
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The Buchenwald report, translated, edited, and with an introduction by David A. Hackett ; foreword by Frederick A. Praeger
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-387) and index
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text
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Contents
Report on Buchenwald Concentration Camp at Weimar -- Statistics and general information -- Luxurious living and corruption of the SS -- Daily life in camp -- The work details -- Punishments in camp -- Sanitary and health questions -- Special actions and special facilities -- The antifascist struggle against the SS -- Conditions during the war -- The liberation of the camp -- The case of Commandant Koch -- Reports from other camps
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ocm31436566
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xviii, 397 pages
Isbn
9780813333632
Lccn
94039714
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • (Sirsi) o31436566
  • (OCoLC)31436566
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The Buchenwald report, translated, edited, and with an introduction by David A. Hackett ; foreword by Frederick A. Praeger
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-387) and index
Carrier category
volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Report on Buchenwald Concentration Camp at Weimar -- Statistics and general information -- Luxurious living and corruption of the SS -- Daily life in camp -- The work details -- Punishments in camp -- Sanitary and health questions -- Special actions and special facilities -- The antifascist struggle against the SS -- Conditions during the war -- The liberation of the camp -- The case of Commandant Koch -- Reports from other camps
Control code
ocm31436566
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xviii, 397 pages
Isbn
9780813333632
Lccn
94039714
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
map
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o31436566
  • (OCoLC)31436566

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