Ebook: Death dealer: the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
Author: Paskuly Steven, Auschwitz, Höß Rudolf, Höss Rudolph
- Tags: Auschwitz / Konzentrationslager, Deutschland, Höß Rudolf, Autobiographie, Erlebnisbericht, Konzentrationslager, Höß Rudolf, Auschwitz -- Konzentrationslager, Höß Rudolf -- Autobiographie, Auschwitz / Konzentrationslager -- Erlebnisbericht, Deutschland -- Konzentrationslager -- Geschichte (1934-1945) -- Erlebnisbericht
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: Prometheus Books
- City: Buffalo;NY;Deutschland
- Language: English
- epub
By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first complete translation of Höss' memoirs into English.
These bone-chilling memoirs were written between October 1946 and April 1947. At the suggestion of Professor Sanislaw Batawia, a psychologist, and Professor Jan Shen, the prosecuting attorney for the Polish War Crimes Commission in Warsaw, Höss wrote a lengthy and detailed description of how the camp developed, his impressions of the various personalities with whom he dealt, and even the extermination of millions in the gas chambers. This written testimony is perhaps the most important document attesting to the Holocaust, because it is the only candid, detailed, and (for the most part) honest description of the Final Solution from a high-ranking SS officer...