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At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author’s interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi... read more
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First Sentence edit
In the final months of World War II, as American soldiers pushed the German army east toward the advancing Russians, the GIs began to discover—and to liberate—dozens upon dozens of camps large and small filled with the multitudes imprisoned by the Nazis.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction: How Do You Prepare to See That?
1. The Beginning of the End
2. Life and Death in Berga
3. Incomprehensible
4. Springtime for Hitler
5. Little Boys Became Men
6. Mere Death Was Not Bad Enough for the Nazis
7. Ike Knew This Would Be Denied
8. Buchenwald: This Ain’t No Place I Wanna Be
9. Gardelegen: Even the Good Germans Had Blood on Their Hands
10. Bergen-Belsen: A Monstrous Spectacle Set to Music
11. I Start Crying and I Can’t Talk Anymore
12. Landsberg: The Kaufering Camps
13. Dachau: Shock Beyond Belief
14. They’re Killing Jews—Who Cares?
15. Gusen-Mauthausen: How Sadistic Can You Be?
16. You Are Still Individually and Collectively Responsible
17. After the War, and Long After the War
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Hirsh (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 940.53185
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