Allies in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp By Duncan Little
Allies in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp By Duncan Little
Softcover
ISBN 9781905570218
Publisher: Clairview Books 2009
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reichs most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration campwhose horrors are well-documentedbut also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough to the Jewish quarters to smell the stench of burning bodies from the crematoria, the POWs were forced to work alongside concentration camp inmates in a Nazi factory. Witnesses to daily violence, the men survived beatings, hard labor, and the extreme cold of Polish winters, all while subsisting on meager rations. Their final ordeal was to march hundreds of miles in the depths of winter to finally gain freedom in the spring of 1945.
Based on interviews with some of the few surviving members of E715 Auschwitz, this book charts the British captives true storyfrom their arrival on cattle trucks through to their eventual departure on foot. Haunted by what they witnessed as young men, Brian Bishop, Doug Bond, and Arthur Gifford-England were unable to speak about their experiences until decades later when approached during research for this book. In post-war Britain, there has been little interest in these remarkable men, and they have had to cope with the trauma of their experiences with little support.
Allies in Auschwitz records an important and forgotten episode of modern history. As corroboration of the mens testimony, the final chapter includes post-war accounts from other British POWs held in E715 Auschwitz, based on documents compiled by war crimes investigators for the Nuremburg Trials.
