Bibliograph

The liberators, America's witnesses to the Holocaust, Michael Hirsh

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The liberators, America's witnesses to the Holocaust, Michael Hirsh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The liberators

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

647799137

Responsibility statement

Michael Hirsh

Sub title

America's witnesses to the Holocaust

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: How do you prepare to see that? -- The beginning of the end -- Life and death in Berga -- Incomprehensible -- Springtime for Hitler -- Little boys became men -- Mere death was not bad enough for the Nazis -- Ike knew this would be denied -- Buchenwald : this ain't no place I wanna be -- Gardelegen : even the good Germans had blood on their hands -- Bergen-Belsen -- I start crying and I can't talk any more -- Landsberg : the Kaufering camps -- Dachau : shock beyond belief -- They're killing Jews : who cares? -- Mauthausen : death on the not-so-beautiful brown Danube -- You are still individually and collectively responsible -- After the war, and long after the war

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