The liberators
Subtitle: America's witnesses to the Holocaust
By: Michael Hirsh
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780553807561
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: How do you prepare to see that?; title: The beginning of the end; title: Life and death in Berga; title: Incomprehensible; title: Springtime for Hitler; title: Little boys became men; title: Mere death was not bad enough for the Nazis; title: Ike knew this would be denied; title: Buchenwald : this ain't no place I wanna be; title: Gardelegen : even the good Germans had blood on their hands; title: Bergen-Belsen; title: I start crying and I can't talk any more; title: Landsberg : the Kaufering camps; title: Dachau : shock beyond belief; title: They're killing Jews : who cares?; title: Mauthausen : death on the not-so-beautiful brown Danube; title: You are still individually and collectively responsible; title: After the war, and long after the war.