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The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
The Theory and Practice of Hell The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
Author: Eugen Kogon, Eugen Kogon
By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to be reached intact was Buchenwald, in central Germany. American soldiers struggled to make sense of the shocking scenes they witnessed inside. They as...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374529925
ISBN-10: 0374529922
Publication Date: 9/19/2006
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I read this years ago, and it still haunts me. It is one of the most harrowing accounts of the Holocaust that I've ever read, painful and raw, but it's unflinching portayal should be read by everyone so that the history of this is never lost, and every doubter should have to read it. Well written, but not an easy read by any means.
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an extrodinary holocaust book written by a prisoner of buchenwals who
was a medical assistant to a nazi doctor who conducted the infamous
human experiments
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