Title: The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust /
Authors: Hirsh, Michael
Publisher: Bantam Books,
Year: 2010
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Liberation; World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Germany; World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Austria; Nazi concentration camps Germany History; Concentration camps Austria History; World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities; Soldiers United States Interviews; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
Abstract: At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Here we meet the brave souls who--now in their eighties and nineties--have chosen at last to share their stories.
Contents: 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.