Death Dealer The Memoirs Of The Ss Kommandant At Auschwitz

by Hoss, Rudolph

• ISBN13: 9780306806988
• ISBN10: 0306806983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-22
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

SS Kommandant Rudolph Hoss (19001947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland.Death Dealeris a new, unexpurgated translation of Hoss's autobiography, written before, during, and after his trial. This edition includes rare photos, the minutes of the Wannsee Conference (where the Final Solution was decided and coordinated), original diagrams of the camps, a detailed chronology of important events at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hoss's final letters to his family, and a new foreword by Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi.Death Dealerstands as one of the most importantand chillingdocuments of the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Foreword	3	(8)
Primo Levi
Preface	11	(4)
Acknowledgments	15	(2)
Translator's Note	17	(2)
Introduction	19	(8)
Part I: Memoirs
The Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Concentration Camp Auschwitz	27	(21)
Early Years	48	(4)
An Early Traumatic Experience	52	(2)
World War I	54	(6)
Battles of the Free Corps	60	(2)
On Trial for Murder	62	(2)
In Prison	64	(3)
Insights into the Criminal Mind	67	(5)
Prison Psychosis	72	(3)
Model Prisoner	75	(2)
Freedom	77	(2)
The Artamans	79	(2)
Again a Soldier	81	(4)
The Early Concentration Camps	85	(3)
The Types of Guards	88	(9)
Experiences in Sachsenhausen	97	(21)
Kommandant of Auschwitz	118	(14)
The Russian Prisoners of War	132	(3)
The Gypsies	135	(4)
The Jews	139	(6)
The Women's Camp	145	(10)
The Gassings	155	(10)
Chief of the Department of Inspections of Concentration Camps	165	(13)
1945-47	178	(4)
Some Final Thoughts	182	(7)
Part II: Final Letters
Final Letters to His Wife and Children	189	(7)
Epilogue	196	(13)
Part III: Profiles of the Camps
Rules and Regulations for Concentration Camps	209	(20)
Purpose of the Camps	209	(1)
Organization of the Concentration Camps	209	(9)
Kommandant's Office	210	(2)
Political Department	212	(1)
Protective Custody Camp	213	(2)
Administration	215	(1)
Camp Doctor	216	(1)
Guard Troops	217	(1)
Camp Punishments	218	(1)
Work Deployment	219	(4)
The Non-Medical Activities of the SS Doctors in Auschwitz	223	(6)
Part IV: Profiles of the SS
Organization Schmelt	229	(97)
Aumeier	230	(3)
Baer	233	(2)
Bischoff	235	(1)
Burger	236	(1)
Caesar	237	(3)
Eichmann	240	(3)
Eicke	243	(7)
Fritzsch	250	(3)
Globocnik	253	(4)
Glucks	257	(3)
Grabner	260	(3)
Gravits	263	(3)
Hartjenstein	266	(2)
Himmler	268	(25)
Kammler	293	(3)
Liebehenschel	296	(4)
Lolling	300	(1)
Maurer	301	(3)
Mockel	304	(1)
Muller	305	(3)
Palitzsch	308	(4)
Pohl	312	(6)
Schwarz	318	(2)
Sell	320	(2)
Thomsen	322	(1)
Wirths	323	(3)
Night and Fog-Meerschaum	326	(1)
Lebensborn	327	(3)
Explanation of the Three Concurrent SS Ranks	330	(2)
SS Tattoos	332	(1)
Appendix I Incident at Budy	333	(3)
Appendix II Chronology of the Important Events at Auschwitz-Birkenau	336	(35)
Appendix III Wannsee Conference Minutes	371	(12)
Bibliography	383	(4)
Index	387