One life
By: Tom Lampert.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); War criminals -- Germany -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Tom Lampert reconstructs the lives of eight people in Nazi Germany based on exhaustive research in archives all over the world." "Among them is Miriam P., a troubled young woman deported from Palestine to Germany in 1933, who finds herself on a path to the gas chamber. And then there is the rabid Nazi Wihelm K., who assumes the position of commissioner general in Belorussia only to fight for the lives of Jews in the Minsk ghetto. Karl L., the only Jew Commissioner K. is able to save, is transferred to Theresienstadt, where he takes control of the Ghetto Guard and relentlessly pursues any violation of concentration camp rules. As the stories of people on both sides of the rift unfold, their interconnected lives branch out in unexpected patterns, shaped by brutal racist policies as well as by simple accidents of fate."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227).
Table of contents: title: White lies; title: One life; title: A rare sense of justice; title: Precautionary measures; title: Structural transformation of the public sphere; title: The inability to digest; title: An authoritarian personality; title: A new beginning.