The Theory and Practice of Hell
Subtitle: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
Contributors: Nikolaus Wachsmann (Introduction); Heinz Norden (Translator)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: September 19, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780374529925
Description: "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 asked a small group of former inmates to draft a report on the camp. It was led by Eugen Kogon, a German political prisoner who had been an inmate since 1939.The Theory and Practice of Hell is his classic account of life inside"--Cover, p. 4.