Brigitte höss

Hedwig hensel
Annegret höss
Rudolf hoess (wife)

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The Private Lives of the SS in Auschwitz

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30-01-2013

An unusual book has been published in Polish language by the Auschwitz Museum: The Private Lives of the SS in Auschwitz.

The publication takes a look at the perpetrators of the crimes committed in Auschwitz from another, little known and sometimes surprising perspective. It contains a section concerning the testimonies of young Polish women who, during the war, were forced to work at the homes of officers and non-commissioned SS officers from the crew of the German Nazi concentration camp. The English edition of the book is being prepared.

Private Lives is a portrait of 22 SS men and their families: from the commander of the camp, Rudolf Höss, his deputy and head of the camp, Karl Fritzsch, the doctors responsible for the selection of Jews deported to the camp on the ramp: Horst Fisher, Werner Rohde, as well as Gerhard Palitzsch, who personally carried out hundreds of executions at the Death Wall, to the lower ranking SS — guards and chauffeurs. The testimonies were selected by Dr Piotr Set

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A Soldier of the Reich: An Autobiography

Superbly illustrated from the author’s own private collection of photographs
Tells the truth and grim realities of fighting a numerically superior enemy in Normandy as well as life in America after the end of hostilities
An ordinary soldier’s personal perspective on the hardships and realities of army life, training and active operations

A Soldier of the Reich: An Autobiographydocuments one man’s life in Nazi Germany. This fascinating book examines what it was like to grow up alongside the rise of fascism, exploring the consequences it had on Günter Horst Beetz’s life, including what this meant for his relationship with his Jewish girlfriend, Ruth.

Beetz also relates his time as a soldier fighting in Normandy, commenting on the ethics of war before spending two years as a prisoner of war in America, unaware of the fate of his family.

After the end of his imprisonment, he ended up in England where he remains to this day. Including previously unpublished images from the author’s personal collection, this first-hand account

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Inside the Third Reich

1969 memoir by Albert Speer

This article is about the book. For the television film based on the book, see Inside the Third Reich (film).

Inside the Third Reich (German: Erinnerungen, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany, but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding his degree of awareness or involvement with them.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his use of prisoners in the armaments factories while Minister of Armaments. From 1946 to 1966, while serving the sentence in Spandau Prison, he penned more than 2,000 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. His first draft was written from March 1953 to 26 December 1954. After his release on 1 October 1966, he used Federal Archive documents to rework the material into his autob