Auschwitz: A History

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One of the other things that struck me about the book was the way Durlacher, like Otto Dov Kulka, talks about seeing the American airplanes flying across the blue skies above Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. Captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and incarcerated in Auschwitz (and later Bergen-Belsen), Améry did not publish these philosophical reflections on his experiences until 1966. That may be a bit glib, but I think the idea that you could go on feeling you possessed some degree of agency was important—it’s that sense of agency that Viktor Frankl was getting at. In the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, there were initially 22 defendants, two of whom dropped out due to illness.

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But I think that it was terribly important in bringing the issue so vividly to public attention that it could no longer be ignored.Some were willing to be duped, to be misled, to pretend they believed the story that someone had been bombed out and had lost their papers or whatever.

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Frankl looks more at the inner life and how the use of your mind can give meaning to life and give you a ray of hope in the darkness. One of them says that, at first, he felt humiliated at being seen so emaciated and dejected and in rags. His impassioned attempt to understand the 'rationale' behind the concentration camps was completed shortly before his death in 1987. Famous for the coining of the phrase “the banality of evil,” which refers to the moral and emotional detachment Eichmann displayed, this book is so much more: a dense, exploratory treatise on the nature of humanity.At the same time, the political parties in Austria were concerned to rehabilitate and integrate former Nazis.

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His critics point out that he had managed not to be deported until quite late, and when he was in Theresienstadt, he had certain privileges. Of course, it was a bigger phenomenon that went beyond West Germany—Vietnam War protests, the Prague Spring—that’s the wider atmosphere. In 1939, Sakowicz, a non-Jewish Polish newspaperman, moved to a cottage in the Lithuanian suburb of Ponary.

A member of the French Resistance, Charlotte Delbo was deported to Auschwitz in early 1943 and was also an inmate at Ravensbrück, the Nazi camp for women. There is much that one could dispute about this gradual but steady process of foregrounding “Auschwitz.

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Out of more than 140,000 people investigated, fewer than 6,660 were actually found guilty—and of these, nearly 5,000 received lenient sentences of less than two years. We all know the headlines – his rousing speeches play on a perpetual loop at the back of Britain’s national psyche – but Andrew Roberts’ exceptional biography gets further beneath the skin of the old bruiser than anyone – bar, perhaps, the man himself – has before. Liana Millu was an Italian Jew who participated in resistance activities before being arrested and sent to Auschwitz in 1944. Or is it a book about Holocaust deniers, like Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory?Melanie wrote: "Does anyone else have an issue with Holocaust-denial books being included in this list? Beyond the camps around Oświęcim itself, there was an enormous network of satellite subcamps all across Silesia and beyond.