|
|
Laddar... Commandant Of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess (utgåvan 2000)| 526 | 14 | 33,834 | 
(3.62) | 4 | By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf H#65533;ss 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 H#65533;ss's 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, H#65533;ss 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 intimately involved in carrying out the plans of Hitler and Himmler. With the cold objectivity of a common hit-man, H#65533;ss chronicles the discovery of the most effective poison gas, and the technical obstacles that often thwarted his aim to kill as efficiently as possible. Staring at the horror without reacting, H#65533;ss allowed conditions at Auschwitz to reduce human beings to walking skeletons - then he labelled them as subhumans fit only to die. Readers will witness H#65533;ss's shallow rationalizations as he tries to balance his deeds with his increasingly disturbed, yet always ineffectual, conscience.… (mer) |
▾Information om boken ▾LibraryThings rekommendationer ▾Kommer du att gilla den?
Laddar...
 Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. ▾Diskussioner ("Om"-länkar) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. » Se även 4 omnämnanden ▾Relationer mellan serier och verk
|
|
| Vedertagen titel |
Information från den franska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. | |
|
| Originaltitel |
|
| Alternativa titlar |
|
| Första utgivningsdatum |
|
| Personer/gestalter |
|
| Viktiga platser |
|
| Viktiga händelser |
|
| Relaterade filmer |
|
| Priser och utmärkelser |
|
| Motto |
|
| Dedikation |
|
| Inledande ord |
|
| Citat |
|
| Avslutande ord |
|
| Särskiljningsnotis |
|
| Förlagets redaktörer |
|
| På baksidan citeras |
|
| Ursprungsspråk |
|
| Kanonisk DDC/MDS |
|
▾Hänvisningar Hänvisningar till detta verk hos externa resurser.  Wikipedia på engelska (7)
▾Bokbeskrivningar By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf H#65533;ss 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 H#65533;ss's 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, H#65533;ss 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 intimately involved in carrying out the plans of Hitler and Himmler. With the cold objectivity of a common hit-man, H#65533;ss chronicles the discovery of the most effective poison gas, and the technical obstacles that often thwarted his aim to kill as efficiently as possible. Staring at the horror without reacting, H#65533;ss allowed conditions at Auschwitz to reduce human beings to walking skeletons - then he labelled them as subhumans fit only to die. Readers will witness H#65533;ss's shallow rationalizations as he tries to balance his deeds with his increasingly disturbed, yet always ineffectual, conscience. ▾Beskrivningar från bibliotek Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. ▾Beskrivningar från medlemmar på LibraryThing |
 Google Books — Laddar... Byt (68 önskar sig)
|
(3.62)
1
1
Det är på inget sätt en läsvänlig bok. Höss har liten känsla för stil, han försöker hela tiden smita från sitt ansvar, och även om han är intelligent nog att inse att lögn förmodligen är värt att prova så är de osanningar han försöker med pinsamt genomskinliga och egentligen poänglösa – typ »Jag skulle velat förbättra för fångarna, men mina underlydande och överordnade var alla emot detta! Jag hade velat ha humanare förhållanden, men det fanns inte resurser! Jag mådde egentligen illa när jag såg allt lidande, men jag stålsatte mig!«: lätt att säga, svårt att bevisa åt endera hållet, och i slutändan inte värt ett vitten för lägerfångarna.
Masken glider dock ofta undan, och inte ens den låtsade ångern är speciellt attraktiv: mot slutet finns ett stycke som säger allt man behöver veta om Höss och vilket ansvar han kan tillräknas:
I also see now that the extermination of the Jews were fundamentally wrong. Precisely because these mass exterminations, Germany has drawn upon herself the hate of the entire world. It in no way served the cause of anti-Semitism, but on the contrary brought the Jews far closer to their ultimate objective. (