Inside the Vicious Heart Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

by Abzug, Robert H.

• ISBN13: 9780195042368
• ISBN10: 0195042360
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-01-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Inside the Vicious Heart captures the shock of the discovery, telling the story of the camp liberations in the words of Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley; editor Joseph Pulitzer; photographer Margaret Bourke-White; and numerous American GIs who opened the gates, buried the dead, and desperately tried to save those they found alive.

Author Biography

Robert H. Abzug is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of
assionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
A Double Vision	p. 3
Ohrdruf and Nordhausen	p. 21
Buchenwald	p. 45
A Landscape of Terror	p. 61
Dachau	p. 87
Mauthausen	p. 105
Telling the Story	p. 127
Displaced Persons	p. 141
Epilogue	p. 169
Acknowledgments	p. 174
Sources	p. 176
Notes	p. 180
Index	p. 188
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