The liberators
Subtitle: America's witnesses to the Holocaust
By: Michael Hirsh.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780553807561
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Austria; Concentration camps -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Concentration camps -- Austria -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities; Soldiers -- United States -- Interviews; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives
Genres: Interviews; Personal narratives, American; Personal narratives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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.