Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps

Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps

Inside the Concentration Camps, sid 132

Inside the Concentration Camps, sid 144

Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps, är en bok skriven av Eugene Aroneanu. Boken bygger på vittnesmål från cirka 100 Förintelseöverlevare i tyska koncentrationsläger under andra världskriget. Det ursprungliga materialet publicerades 1946 då Aroneanu sammanställde vittnesredogörelser för Nürnbergrättegångarna.

Utdrag ur boken Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps

"800 to 900 yards from the place where the ovens were, the prisoners were squeezed into little cars that ran on rails. In Auschwitz these cars had various dimensions and could hold up to 15 people. As soon as a car was loaded, it would be set in motion on an inclined plane that traveled at full speed down a corridor. At the end of the corridor there was a wall, and in the wall was the door to the oven. As soon as the car hit the wall, the door opened automatically, and the car would dip forward and pitch its cargo of living people into the oven. Right behind it came another car, and so on."

Auschwitz: cirka 7-8 miljoner människor mördade

In boken anges dödstalet för Auschwitz till cirka 7-8 miljoner människor. På sidan 144 står att läsa: "In all, at least 7 million people were killed in Auschwitz alone" samt "The figure of 8 million people annihilated in this camp seems in no way to be an exaggeration".

Antalet döda i Majdanek anges till 3 miljoner: "Three million for Maidanek, the camp at Lublin"

Det totala antalet människor som föll offer för Förintelsen anges till 26 miljoner: "The number of 26 million represents approximately the total number of people, POW´s and political prisoners (men, women, children, of all ages and nationalities), whom the Germans caused to die from hunger, cold, sickness, torture, medical experiments, and other means of extermination, in all the camps in Germany and in occupied territories."

Omdöme om boken

"Aroneanu, a Romanian, was assigned the task of drawing up the first lists of Nazi atrocities in 1945 for use at the Nuremberg war crime trials. This book is the result of his research. The 100 eyewitness testimonies by concentration camp survivors are intermixed, arranged by subject matter to reflect the chronology of the camps from deportations to liberation. The survivors were not only Jews but also Gypsies, Catholics, Communists, and Jehovah's Witnesses; attorneys, doctors, teachers, students, soldiers, a bakery clerk, and a mechanic. They speak of unbelievable horror; the book also contains statements from 25 official reports from such death camps as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, and Ravensbruck. No other work documents these crimes against humanity as powerfully and vividly as this one."

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