A Judge In Auschwitz

Author : Kevin Prenger
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399018777

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A Judge in Auschwitz by Kevin Prenger Pdf

The remarkable true story of the man tasked by the Nazis with prosecuting crimes at concentration camps. In autumn 1943, SS judge Konrad Morgen—a graduate of the Hague Academy of International Law—visited Auschwitz concentration camp to investigate an intercepted parcel containing gold sent from the camp. While there, Morgen found the SS camp guards engaged in widespread theft and corruption. Worse, Morgen also discovered that inmates were being killed without authority from the SS leadership. While millions of Jews were being exterminated under the Final Solution program, Konrad Morgen set about gathering evidence of these “illegal murders.” Morgen also visited other camps, such as Buchenwald, where he had the notorious camp commandant Karl Koch and Ilse, his sadistic spouse, arrested and charged. Found guilty by an SS court, Koch was sentenced to death. Remarkably, the apparently fearless SS judge also tried to prosecute other Nazi criminals including Waffen-SS commanders Oskar Dirlewanger and Hermann Fegelein and Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss. He even claimed to have tried to indict Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible for organizing the mass deportation of the Jews to the extermination camps. This intriguing work reveals how the lines between justice and injustice became blurred in the Third Reich. As well as describing the actions of this often-contradictory character, the author questions Morgen’s motives and delves into his postwar life—which included both testifying at Nuremberg and being investigated for crimes himself.

Author : Kevin Prenger
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399018760

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A Judge in Auschwitz: Konrad Morgen's Crusade Against SS Corruption & 'Illegal' Murder by Kevin Prenger Pdf

In autumn 1943, SS judge Konrad Morgen visited Auschwitz concentration camp to investigate an intercepted parcel containing gold sent from the camp. While there Morgen found the SS camp guards engaged in widespread theft and corruption. Worse, Morgen also discovered that inmates were being killed without authority from the SS leadership. While millions of Jews were being exterminated under the Final Solution program, Konrad Morgen set about gathering evidence of these 'illegal murders'. Morgen also visited other camps such as Buchenwald where he had the notorious camp commandant Karl Koch and Ilse, his sadistic spouse, arrested and charged. Found guilty by an SS court, Koch was sentenced to death. Remarkably, the apparently fearless SS judge also tried to prosecute other Nazi criminals including Waffen-SS commanders Oskar Dirlewanger and Hermann Fegelein and Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss. He even claimed to have tried to indict Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible for organizing the mass deportation of the Jews to the extermination camps. This intriguing work reveals how the lines between justice and injustice became blurred in the Third Reich. As well as describing the actions of this often contradictory character the author questions Morgen's motives.

Author : H. Pauer-Studer,J. Velleman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137496959

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Konrad Morgen by H. Pauer-Studer,J. Velleman Pdf

Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a moral biography of Georg Konrad Morgen, who prosecuted crimes committed by members of the SS in Nazi concentration camps and eventually came face-to-face with the system of industrialized murder at Auschwitz. His wartime papers and postwar testimonies yield a study in moral complexity.

Author : Wilhelm Stäglich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Holocaust denial literature
ISBN : 1591480744

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Auschwitz by Wilhelm Stäglich Pdf

Auschwitz is the epicenter of the Holocaust. There is no place on earth where more people are said to have been murdered than at Auschwitz. At this detention camp the industrialized mass murder of the Jews by Nazi Germany reached its demonic pinnacle. This narrative is based on a wide range of evidence, the most important of which was presented during two trials whose findings form the foundation of our present image of Auschwitz: the International Military Tribunal of 1945-1946 in Nuremberg, Germany, and the German Auschwitz Trial of 1963-1965 in Frankfurt. When we dig deeper into the rulings of these trials and the actual evidence they are based upon, however, the story looks quite differently. The late Wilhelm St glich, until the mid-1970s a German judge, has so far been the only legal expert to critically analyze the foundations of what we today think we know about Auschwitz. His research results, as presented in this book, leave the reader at times breathless when confronted with the incredibly scandalous way in which the Allied victors and later the German judicial authorities bent and broke the law in order to come to politically foregone conclusions. St glich also exposes the shockingly superficial way in which historians are dealing with the many incongruities and discrepancies of the historical record. The present study is an eye-opener for all those who think that the Auschwitz Holocaust has been proved beyond doubt - either during these legal proceedings or by any other means. This new edition is corrected and slightly revised. It contains a foreword by the editor pointing the curious reader to more recent research results, as well as an epilogue describing the persecution suffered by the author for his peaceful dissent after his book was first published in Germany in 1979 - and then confiscated and burned by the authorities.

Author : Wilhelm Stäglich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Holocaust denial
ISBN : 0939484234

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The Auschwitz Myth by Wilhelm Stäglich Pdf

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Guilt
ISBN : 1585472921

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The Judges by Elie Wiesel Pdf

From the writer, humanist, activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize comes a timely and gripping story of guilt and innocence – and of the peril of pronouncing judgments. A plane en route to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather, and some nearby residents provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband for a new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret; and Bruce, a would-be priest turned philanderer. Their host, who calls himself the Judge, forces them to face the truth of their lives and pronounces that the least worthy of them will die.

Author : Ronen Steinke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253046895

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Fritz Bauer by Ronen Steinke Pdf

German Jewish judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903–1968) played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and the initiation of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Author Ronen Steinke tells this remarkable story while sensitively exploring the many contributions Bauer made to the postwar German justice system. As it sheds light on Bauer's Jewish identity and the role it played in these trials and his later career, Steinke's deft narrative contributes to the larger story of Jewishness in postwar Germany. Examining latent antisemitism during this period as well as Jewish responses to renewed German cultural identity and politics, Steinke also explores Bauer's personal and family life and private struggles, including his participation in debates against the criminalization of homosexuality—a fact that only came to light after his death in 1968. This new biography reveals how one individual's determination, religion, and dedication to the rule of law formed an important foundation for German post war society.

Author : Thomas Buergenthal
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847651846

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A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal Pdf

Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide. Aged ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated from his parents. Using his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck, he managed to survive until he was liberated from Sachsenhausen in 1945. After experiencing the turmoil of Europe's post-war years - from the Battle of Berlin, to a Jewish orphanage in Poland - Buergenthal went to America in the 1950s at the age of seventeen. He eventually became one of the world's leading experts on international law and human rights. His story of survival and his determination to use law and justice to prevent further genocide is an epic and inspirational journey through twentieth century history. His book is both a special historical document and a great literary achievement, comparable only to Primo Levi's masterpieces.

Author : Rebecca Wittmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674063877

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Beyond Justice by Rebecca Wittmann Pdf

In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest and most public trial to take place in the country and attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and extensive trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittmann offers a fascinating reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its past. Evoking the courtroom atmosphere, Wittmann vividly recounts the testimony of survivors, former SS officers, and defendants--a cross-section of the camp population. Attorney General Fritz Bauer made an extraordinary effort to put the entire Auschwitz complex on trial, but constrained by West German murder laws, the prosecution had to resort to standards for illegal behavior that echoed the laws of the Third Reich. This provided a legitimacy to the Nazi state. Only those who exceeded direct orders were convicted of murder. This shocking ruling was reflected in the press coverage, which focused on only the most sadistic and brutal crimes, allowing the real atrocity at Auschwitz--mass murder in the gas chambers--to be relegated to the background. The Auschwitz trial had a paradoxical result. Although the prosecution succeeded in exposing SS crimes at the camp for the first time, the public absorbed a distorted representation of the criminality of the camp system. The Auschwitz trial ensured that rather than coming to terms with their Nazi past, Germans managed to delay a true reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust.

Author : John W. Primomo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476639420

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Architect of Death at Auschwitz by John W. Primomo Pdf

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of more than 1.1 million people. Unlike many of his Nazi colleagues who denied either knowing about or participating in the Holocaust, Hoss remorselessly admitted, both at the Nuremberg war crimes trial and in his memoirs, that he sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers, frankly describing the killing process. His "innovations" included the use of hydrogen cyanide (derived from the pesticide Zyklon B) in the camp's gas chambers. Hoss lent his name to the 1944 operation that gassed 430,000 Hungarian Jews in 56 days, exceeding the capacity of the Auschwitz's crematoria. This biography follows Hoss throughout his life, from his childhood through his Nazi command and eventual reckoning at Nuremberg. Using historical records and Hoss' autobiography, it explores the life and mind of one of history's most notorious and sadistic individuals.

Author : Robert Jan Van Pelt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253028846

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The Case for Auschwitz by Robert Jan Van Pelt Pdf

From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt’s book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist, Fred Leuchter, which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court.

Author : Miklós Nyiszli
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1559702028

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Auschwitz by Miklós Nyiszli Pdf

Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available."

Author : Dieter Schlesak
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429958928

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The Druggist of Auschwitz by Dieter Schlesak Pdf

Dieter Schlesak's haunting novel The Druggist of Auschwitz—beautifully translated from the German by John Hargraves—is a frighteningly vivid portrayal of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of criminal and victim alike. Adam, known as "the last Jew of Schäßburg," recounts with disturbing clarity his imprisonment at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Through Adam's fictional narrative and excerpts of actual testimony from the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963–65, we come to learn of the true-life story of Dr. Victor Capesius, who, despite strong friendships with Jews before the war, quickly aided in and profited from their tragedy once the Nazis came to power. Interspersed with historical research and the author's face-to-face interviews with survivors, the novel follows Capesius from his assignment as the "sorter" of new arrivals at Auschwitz—deciding who will go directly to the gas chamber and who will be used for labor—through his life of lavish wealth after the war to his arrest and eventual trial. Schlesak's seamless incorporation of factual data and testimony—woven into Adam's dreamlike remembrance of a world turned upside down—makes The Druggist of Auschwitz a vital and unique addition to our understanding of the Holocaust.

Author : Laurence Rees
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586483579

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Auschwitz by Laurence Rees Pdf

Insights gleaned from more than one hundred original interviews shed new light on history's most notorious death camp, with the testimonies of survivors providing a detailed portrait of the camp's inner workings.

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684826806

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Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi Pdf

A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.