British Pows And The Holocaust

Author : Russell Wallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350985600

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British POWs and the Holocaust by Russell Wallis Pdf

In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps, but their testimony has never been fully published. Here, using eye-witness accounts held by the Holocaust Educational Trust, Russell Wallis rewrites the history of British prisoners and the Holocaust during the Second World War. He uncovers the histories of men such as Cyril Rofe, an Anglo-Jewish PoW who escaped from a work camp in Upper Silesia and fled eastwards towards the Russian lines, recounting his shattering experiences of the so-called 'bloodlands' of eastern Poland. Wallis also shows how and why the knowledge of those in the armed forces was never fully publicised, and how some PoW accounts were later exaggerated or fictionalised. British PoWs and the Holocaust will be an essential new oral history of the holocaust and an extraordinary insight into what was known and when about the greatest crime of the 20th century.

Author : Yorai Linenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198892786

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Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity by Yorai Linenberg Pdf

This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs from western countries on the other. The radicalisation of Germany's anti-Semitic policies entered its last phase in June 1941 with the invasion of the Soviet Union; during the following four years, nearly six million Jews were murdered. In parallel, Germany's POW policies had gone through a radicalisation process of their own, resulting in the murder of millions of Soviet POWs, of Allied commando soldiers, and of POW escapees, with Adolf Hitler eventually transferring in July 1944 the responsibility for POWs from the Wehrmacht to Heinrich Himmler, in his role as head of the Replacement Army. And yet, despite all this, Jewish POWs from western countries were usually not discriminated against and were treated, in most cases, according to the 1929 Geneva Convention. Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity combines memoirs, letters, and oral histories with Red Cross camp visit reports and other archival material to challenge the accepted view of the Holocaust as an indiscriminate murder of all Jews in Europe and will help to reshape our understanding of the Holocaust and of Nazi Germany.

Author : Duncan Little
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905570409

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Allies in Auschwitz by Duncan Little Pdf

The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich’s most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough to the Jewish quarters to smell the stench of burning bodies from the crematoria, the POWs were forced to work alongside concentration camp inmates in a Nazi factory. Witnesses to daily violence, the men survived beatings, hard labour and the extreme cold of Polish winters, whilst subsisting on meagre rations. Their final ordeal was to march hundreds of miles, in the depths of winter, to secure freedom in the spring of 1945. Based on interviews with some of the few surviving members of E715 Auschwitz, this book charts the British captives’ true story: from arriving on cattle trucks through to their eventual departure on foot. Haunted by what they had witnessed as young men, Brian Bishop, Doug Bond and Arthur Gifford-England were only able to speak about their experiences decades later, when approached during research for this book. Few people were interested in these remarkable men in post-war Britain, and they were left to cope with the trauma of their experiences with little support. Allies in Auschwitz records an important and forgotten episode of modern history. As corroboration of the men’s testimony, the final chapter includes post-war accounts from other British POWs held in E715 Auschwitz, based on documents compiled by war crimes’ investigators for the Nuremburg Trials.

Author : Caroline Sharples,Olaf Jensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137350770

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Britain and the Holocaust by Caroline Sharples,Olaf Jensen Pdf

How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century.

Author : Arieh J. Kochavi
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876404

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Confronting Captivity by Arieh J. Kochavi Pdf

How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended? In Confronting Captivity, Arieh J. Kochavi offers a behind-the-scenes look at the living conditions in Nazi camps and traces the actions the British and American governments took--and didn't take--to ensure the safety of their captured soldiers. Concern in London and Washington about the safety of these POWs was mitigated by the recognition that the Nazi leadership tended to adhere to the Geneva Convention when it came to British and U.S. prisoners. Following the invasion of Normandy, however, Allied apprehension over the safety of POWs turned into anxiety for their very lives. Yet Britain and the United States took the calculated risk of counting on a swift conclusion to the war as the Soviets approached Germany from the east. Ultimately, Kochavi argues, it was more likely that the lives of British and American POWs were spared because of their race rather than any actions their governments took on their behalf.

Author : Russell Wallis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350152168

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British PoWs and the Holocaust by Russell Wallis Pdf

In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps, but their testimony has never been fully published. Here, using eye-witness accounts held by the Holocaust Educational Trust, Russell Wallis rewrites the history of British prisoners and the Holocaust during the Second World War. He uncovers the histories of men such as Cyril Rofe, an Anglo-Jewish PoW who escaped from a work camp in Upper Silesia and fled eastwards towards the Russian lines, recounting his shattering experiences of the so-called 'bloodlands' of eastern Poland. Wallis also shows how and why the knowledge of those in the armed forces was never fully publicised, and how some PoW accounts were later exaggerated or fictionalised. British PoWs and the Holocaust will be an essential new oral history of the holocaust and an extraordinary insight into what was known and when about the greatest crime of the 20th century.

Author : Colin Rushton
Publisher : Summersdale
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857658487

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Auschwitz by Colin Rushton Pdf

In 1942 young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Auschwitz. He was forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten. This shocking story sheds new light on the operations at the camp, exposes a hierarchy of prisoner treatment by the SS and presents the largely unknown story of military POWs held there.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 9781455612284

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Spectator in Hell by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hannah Rigler,Hanita Blumfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ex-prisoners of war
ISBN : 1889534986

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10 British P.O.W.s Saved My Life by Hannah Rigler,Hanita Blumfield Pdf

This is the story of Sara (Hannah) Matuson Rigler's survival when caught in the catastrophe of the Holocaust by 10 British Prisoners of War, whose compassion matched her courage, and how she kept her promise to her brutally murdered family to remember and honor them by doing good in the world.

Author : Natasha Tristan
Publisher : UB Tech
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Arthur Dodd's Auschwitz Days by Natasha Tristan Pdf

Have ever the interesting funny stories of the battlefield caught everyone’s attention? No, isn’t it? It may be doubtful. Or very few that can be counted on the finger. Anyone will shudder to repeat things that failed one or more times, right? It will surely think twice when it comes to battlefield. When British soldier Arthur Dodd and his comrades were incarcerated in camps in Nazi-occupied Poland, they demonstrated nothing of the sort. This article gives readers an interesting way to look through the snippets of the days of Britain POWs in their camps, where attempts to escape were thwarted, but within days they were trapped again and punished even faster. It paves the way for all to understand the value of the relationship that emerges in the face of adversity. It’s possible to get to know a different facet of the Holocaust and World War II that has never been seen before. An in-depth journey through the sub-camp Auschwitz III gives a closer look at the plight of the Holocaust victims. Take a trip through the lives of the Monowitz (Auschwitz III) which paved the way for the Holocaust and World War 2.

Author : Russell Wallis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786731944

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British PoWs and the Holocaust by Russell Wallis Pdf

In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps, but their testimony has never been fully published. Here, using eye-witness accounts held by the Imperial War Museum, Russell Wallis rewrites the history of British prisoners and the Holocaust during the Second World War. He uncovers the histories of men such as Cyril Rofe, an Anglo-Jewish PoW who escaped from a work camp in Upper Silesia and fled eastwards towards the Russian lines, recounting his shattering experiences of the so-called 'bloodlands' of eastern Poland. Wallis also shows how and why the knowledge of those in the armed forces was never fully publicised, and how some PoW accounts were later exaggerated or fictionalised. British PoWs and the Holocaust will be an essential new oral history of the holocaust and an extraordinary insight into what was known and when about the greatest crime of the 20th century.

Author : Denis Avey,Rob Broomby
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444714180

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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey,Rob Broomby Pdf

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past, but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story - a tale as gripping as it is moving - which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.

Author : Alan Malpass
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030489151

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British Character and the Treatment of German Prisoners of War, 1939–48 by Alan Malpass Pdf

This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups and protest movements. Moving beyond conventional assessments of POW treatment which have focused on the development of policy, diplomatic relations, and the experience of the POWs themselves, this study refocuses the debate onto the attitude of the British public towards the standard of treatment of German POWs. In so doing, it reveals that the issue of POW treatment intersected with discussions of state power, human rights, gender relations, civility, and national character.

Author : Colin Rushton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 1787833860

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The Saboteur of Auschwitz by Colin Rushton Pdf

In 1942, young British soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name, now synonymous with mankind's darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz. Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting, he sabotaged Nazi industrial work, risked his life to alleviate the suffering of the Jewish prisoners and aided a partisan group planning a mass break-out. This shocking true story sheds new light on the operations at the camp, exposes a hierarchy of prisoner treatment by the SS and presents the largely unknown story of the military POWs held there.

Author : Colin Rushton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 1408412721

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Spectator in Hell by Colin Rushton Pdf

Arthur Dodd was a British soldier who, after being captured by the Nazis, was sent to Camp Three of Auschwitz. He eventually escaped, but returned on several occasions to sabotage the camp. This book tells the story of the horrors he saw at Auschwitz.