The Auschwitz photographer based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444

"When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered by the SS to recor...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Crippa, Luca 1964- (VerfasserIn), Onnis, Maurizio 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Brasse, Wilhelm 1917-2012 (FotografIn), Higgins, Jennifer (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: [London] doubleday 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the camp. He began by taking identification photographs of prisoners as they entered the camp, went on to capture the criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele, and also recorded executions. Between 1940 and 1945, Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the horror around him. He took them because he had no choice. Eventually, Brasse's conscience wouldn't allow him to hide behind his camera. First he risked his life by joining the camp's Resistance movement, faking documents for prisoners, trying to smuggle images to the outside world to reveal what was happening. Then, when Soviet troops finally advanced on the camp to liberate it, Brasse refused SS orders to destroy his photographs. 'Because the world must know,' he said. For readers of The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz, this powerful true story of hope and courage lies at the very centre of Holocaust history."
Beschreibung:xiii, 287 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:9780857527165
9780857527462