The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust /
Hirsh, Michael.
The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust / Michael Hirsh. - 1st ed. - New York : Bantam Books, c2010. - xvii, 356 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-339) and index.
Introduction: How do you prepare to see that? -- The beginning of the end -- Life and death in Berga -- Incomprehensible -- Springtime for Hitler -- Little boys became men -- Mere death was not bad enough for the Nazis -- Ike knew this would be denied -- Buchenwald : this ain't no place I wanna be -- Gardelegen : even the good Germans had blood on their hands -- Bergen-Belsen -- I start crying and I can't talk any more -- Landsberg : the Kaufering camps -- Dachau : shock beyond belief -- They're killing Jews : who cares? -- Mauthausen : death on the not-so-beautiful brown Danube -- You are still individually and collectively responsible -- After the war, and long after the war.
0553807560 9780553807561
2009042954
Concentration camps--History--Austria--20th century.
Concentration camps--History--Germany--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust / Michael Hirsh. - 1st ed. - New York : Bantam Books, c2010. - xvii, 356 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-339) and index.
Introduction: How do you prepare to see that? -- The beginning of the end -- Life and death in Berga -- Incomprehensible -- Springtime for Hitler -- Little boys became men -- Mere death was not bad enough for the Nazis -- Ike knew this would be denied -- Buchenwald : this ain't no place I wanna be -- Gardelegen : even the good Germans had blood on their hands -- Bergen-Belsen -- I start crying and I can't talk any more -- Landsberg : the Kaufering camps -- Dachau : shock beyond belief -- They're killing Jews : who cares? -- Mauthausen : death on the not-so-beautiful brown Danube -- You are still individually and collectively responsible -- After the war, and long after the war.
0553807560 9780553807561
2009042954
Concentration camps--History--Austria--20th century.
Concentration camps--History--Germany--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.