If This Is a Man
as seen by prisoners at Auschwitz, are shown in Primo Levi's memoir, "If This Is a Man", and in the graphic novels "Maus" and "Maus II". Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the bombing of Dresden and fictionalized the experience in "Slaughterhouse-Five". Scum of the Earth (book) is a memoir by Arthur Koestler of the collapse of France in 1940.