Inside A Gestapo Prison

Author : Irene Tomaszewski
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814338872

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Inside a Gestapo Prison by Irene Tomaszewski Pdf

On the eve of World War II, Krystyna Wituska, a carefree teenager attending finishing school in Switzerland, returned to Poland. During the occupation, when she was twenty years old, she drifted into the Polish Underground. By her own admission, she was attracted first by the adventure, but her youthful bravado soon turned into a mental and spiritual mastery over fear. Because Krystyna spoke fluent German, she was assigned to collect information on German troop movements at Warsaw's airport. In 1942, at age twenty-one, she was arrested by the Gestapo and transferred to prison in Berlin, where she was executed two years later. Eighty of the letters that Krystyna wrote in the last eighteen months of her life are translated and collected in this volume. The letters, together with an introduction providing historical background to Krystyna's arrest, constitute a little-known and authentic record of the treatment of ethnic Poles under German occupation, the experience of Polish prisoners in German custody, and a glimpse into the prisons of Berlin. Krystyna's letters also reflect her own courage, idealism, faith, and sense of humor. As a classroom text, this book relates nicely to contemporary discussions of racism, nationalism, patriotism, human rights, and stereotypes.

Author : Dr. Alfred Wallner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462043774

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Three Months in a Gestapo Prison by Dr. Alfred Wallner Pdf

Like many heroes, the narrator of this remarkable story, his own, was a reluctant and even unwilling one. It happened when he was confronted with a moral dilemma and something within him made the right choice, to the surprise and even the disapproval of the rest of him that much wanted to protect his young family. He too was young. The time was early 1945, when savage World War II was coming to an end in Europe. Alfred Wallner, a doctor serving in the lower Austrian alps as the Allied armies closed in on Germanys appalling Third Reich that Austria had joined in 1938, detested the Nazis but not enough to risk virtually certain death if hed be caught helping Americans. But he did help a team of them and was quickly caught, after which he was taken to a Gestapo prison where the people he met, from his cellmates to the warders, were not merely a fascinating cast of characters but also a fair sample of the types one encounters in any country under stress. In that way and others, Dr. Wallners story is a cautionary as well as a gripping tale, and it contains a great surprise.

Author : Krystyna Wituska
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814332943

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Inside a Gestapo Prison by Krystyna Wituska Pdf

A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.

Author : Werner Jung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Cologne (Germany)
ISBN : 3954512394

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Walls that talk by Werner Jung Pdf

Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300228298

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Hitler’s Prisons by Nikolaus Wachsmann Pdf

State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and operated this system of brutal legal terror. Nikolaus Wachsmann describes the operation and function of legal terror in the Third Reich and brings Nazi prisons to life through the harrowing stories of individual inmates. Drawing on a vast array of archival materials, he traces the series of changes in prison policies and practice that led eventually to racial terror, brutal violence, slave labor, starvation, and mass killings. Wachsmann demonstrates that “ordinary” legal officials were ready collaborators who helped to turn courts and prisons into key components in the Nazi web of terror. And he concludes with a discussion of the whitewash of the Nazi legal system in postwar West Germany.

Author : Robert J. Richey
Publisher : Author House
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456766887

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My Brother Glenn a Prisoner of the Gestapo During World War Ii by Robert J. Richey Pdf

My brother Glenn served in the US Eighth Air Force during the Air War over Germany in 1944. His plane was shot down on his 22nd mission just inside the French Coast two days before the Landing on D-Day. He was rescued by French farmers but later was betrayed by another frenchman in Paris to the Gestapo. He was incarcerated in Buchenwald, one of the Death Camps. He survived the War and lived his life out in the Town in East Texas he grew up in. This is his Story in his words.

Author : Carsten Dams,Michael Stolle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199669219

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The Gestapo by Carsten Dams,Michael Stolle Pdf

Draws on the latest research to present a history of the Gestapo, from its creation during the Weimar Republic to the fate of its officers after World War II, and unravel the truths and mysteries behind its rule.

Author : Tom Firth
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844684823

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Prisoner of the Gestapo by Tom Firth Pdf

Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in Warsaw, Poland. However they became split up when Poland became overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older brother were in England, Tom found himself trapped in the Russian-occupied part of the country and, after several agonizing months, eventually made his way to Warsaw where his mother had managed to survive the bombing of the city. He vividly describes life under both regimes, as well as the cat-and-mouse game his mother was forced to play with the Gestapo in order to avoid arrest. Later, both became deeply involved with the sheltering of escaped British prisoners of war and it was this activity which led to his capture and imprisonment in a jail in Krakow. Miraculously released after eighteen months captivity, largely due to his command of the Polish language, he vowed to escape to Britain at all cost.Later in the war and after many harrowing experiences he succeeded in getting through to the Red Army, but was again faced with hostility, suspicion and imprisonment. Held for several months in primitive conditions, he, along with two British companions was finally taken to Moscow and handed over to the British Military Mission there. Arriving in Scotland with a convoy of supply ships late in December 1944, he had the galling experience of spending a night in Brixton Prison. With nowhere to go he then began a frantic search for his father and brother, who were convinced that he was dead. His dream came true, but even after the ending of hostilities and later in time, tragedy struck with the news of his mothers arrest by the Polish Communist authorities. Sentenced to death for alleged espionage, she spent several years in prison, being freed in a Government amnesty and arriving in England in 1956.

Author : Lore Shelley
Publisher : Shengold Books
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081703618

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Secretaries of Death by Lore Shelley Pdf

Memoirs of 27 Jewish women (and four non-Jewish men) who worked in the office of the Politische Abteilung at Auschwitz. also gives details on women and men who are deceased or who chose not to contribute.

Author : Erika Bucholtz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anti-Nazi movement
ISBN : 3980720551

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The "house Prison" at Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin by Erika Bucholtz Pdf

Author : James D. Shipman
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496723895

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Irena's War by James D. Shipman Pdf

“Shipman dazzles in this historical tour-de-force based on the real-life story of WWII Polish resistance fighter Irena Sendler . . . spellbinding." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Based on the gripping true story of an unlikely Polish resistance fighter who helped save thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, bestselling author James D. Shipman’s Irena’s War is a heart-pounding novel of courage in action, helmed by an extraordinary and unforgettable protagonist. September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city’s poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly. Dragged from her home in the night, Irena is brought before a Gestapo agent, Klaus Rein, who offers her a position running the city’s soup kitchens, all to maintain the illusion of order. Though loath to be working under the Germans, Irena learns there are ways to defy her new employer—including forging documents so that Jewish families receive food intended for Aryans. As Irena grows bolder, her interactions with Klaus become more fraught and perilous. Klaus is unable to prove his suspicions against Irena—yet. But once Warsaw’s half-million Jews are confined to the ghetto, awaiting slow starvation or the death camps, Irena realizes that providing food is no longer enough. Recruited by the underground Polish resistance organization Zegota, she carries out an audacious scheme to rescue Jewish children. One by one, they are smuggled out in baskets and garbage carts, or led through dank sewers to safety—every success raising Klaus’s ire. Determined to quell the uprising, he draws Irena into a cat-and-mouse game that will test her in every way—and where the slightest misstep could mean not just her own death, but the slaughter of those innocents she is so desperate to save.

Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429943727

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KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called "the gray zone." In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system. Examining, close up, life and death inside the camps, and adopting a wider lens to show how the camp system was shaped by changing political, legal, social, economic, and military forces, Wachsmann produces a unified picture of the Nazi regime and its camps that we have never seen before. A boldly ambitious work of deep importance, KL is destined to be a classic in the history of the twentieth century.

Author : Arnold Krammer
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1493049526

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Nazi Prisoners of War in America by Arnold Krammer Pdf

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi prisoners of war in 511 camps across the country. With a new introduction and illustrated with more than 70 rare photos, Krammer describes how, with no precedents upon which to form policy, America's handling of these foreign prisoners led to the hasty conversation of CCC camps, high school gyms, local fairgrounds, and race tracks to serve as holding areas. The Seattle Times calls Nazi Prisoners of War in America "the definitive history of one of the least known segments of America's involvement in World War II. Fascinating. A notable addition to the history of that war."

Author : Sarah Helm
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748112302

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A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm Pdf

During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps -- some were tortured, some were shot, and some died in the gas chambers. Vera Atkins had helped prepare these women for their missions, and when the war was over she went out to Germany to find out what happened to them and the other agents lost behind enemy lines. But while the woman who carried out this extraordinary mission appeared quintessentially English, she was nothing of the sort. Vera Atkins, who never married, covered her life in mystery so that even her closest family knew almost nothing of her past. In A LIFE IN SECRETS Sarah Helm has stripped away Vera's many veils and -- with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera's relatives -- vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life.

Author : Krystyna Wituska
Publisher : Esplanade Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021558858

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I Am First a Human Being by Krystyna Wituska Pdf

A collection of letters that documents the trials of a young Polish woman who was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo in 1942 for working as a spy for the Polish Underground, imprisoned in Berlin, and executed two years later.