Death Dealer

By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Hoss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. "Death Dealer" is the first complete translation of Hoss' memoirs into English. These bone-chilling memoirs were written between October 1946 and April 1947. At the suggestion of Professor Sanislaw Batawia, a psychologist, and Professor Jan Shen, the prosecuting attorney for the Polish War Crimes Commission in Warsaw, Hoss wrote a lengthy and detailed description of how the camp developed, his impressions of the various personalities with whom he dealt, and even the extermination of millions in the gas chambers. This written testimony is perhaps the most important document attesting to the Holocaust, because it is the only candid, detailed, and (for the most part) honest description of the Final Solution from a high-ranking SS officer intimately involved in carrying out the plans of Hitler and Himmler. With the cold objectivity of a common hit-man, Hoss chronicles the discovery of the most effective poison gas, and the technical obstacles that often thwarted his aim to kill as efficiently as possible. Staring at the horror without reacting, Hoss allowed conditions at Auschwitz to reduce human beings to walking skeletons - then he labelled them as sub-humans fit only to die. Readers will witness Hoss' shallow rationalisations as he tries to balance his deeds with his increasingly disturbed, yet always ineffectual, conscience.

ISBN 0879757140   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780879757144 (What's this?)   Pages 390 Publisher Prometheus Books   Volumes 1 Imprint Prometheus Books   Weight (grammes) 771 Format Hardback   Published in Amherst Publication date 31 Dec 1994   Height (mm) 215 Non-book description 390 p. :   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress D805.P7H67   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY 364.151092   Academic level General

		Preface		11
		Acknowledgments		15
		Translator's Note		17
		Introduction		19
Pt. I		Memoirs
1		The Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Concentration Camp Auschwitz		27
2		Early Years		48
3		An Early Traumatic Experience		52
4		World War I		54
5		Battles of the Free Corps		60
6		On Trial for Murder		62
7		In Prison		64
8		Insights into the Criminal Mind		67
9		Prison Psychosis		72
10		Model Prisoner		75
11		Freedom		77
12		The Artamans		79
13		Again a Soldier		81
14		The Early Concentration Camps		85
15		The Types of Guards		88
16		Experiences in Sachsenhausen		97
17		Kommandant of Auschwitz		118
18		The Russian Prisoners of War		132
19		The Gypsies		135
20		The Jews		139
21		The Women's Camp		145
22		The Gassings		155
23		Chief of the Department of Inspections of Concentration Camps		165
24		1945-47		178
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