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“Any writer of a book on German concentration camps is under no delusion that nowadays there is a great deal of general interest in the topic.”
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Language Notes Text: English, Dutch (translation) From the Publisher In an authoritative, fully-documented study, Dr. Cohen, a Dutch physician who was himself a prisoner at Auschwitz, has produced a remarkably dispassionate account of life in the German concentration camps. His great contribution lies in his analysis of the mentality of the prisoners and the SS. Basing his conclusions on his own experiences as well as on books and articles by many other inmates, Dr. Cohen attempts to answer two questions: what enabled the prisoners to withstand the horrible treatment and what caused the SS men to perpetrate the monstrous acts of barbarity?