The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an Ss Physician

by CERNYAK-SPATZ SUSAN E.

• ISBN13: 9780815606048
• ISBN10: 0815606044
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Fifty years after WWII, Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Munch, a former Nazi and head of the Waffen SS Hygiene Institute, talk face to face, in an interview that grew out of a documentary film by Bernhard Frankfurter. The dramatic structure of the discussion follows events of the Nazi occupation chronologically. Frankfurter was an international Film director. Cernyak-Spatz is professor emerita of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. First published in German in 1995 as Die Begegnung: Auschwitz-Ein Opfer und ein Tater im Gesprach by Verlag fur Gesellschaftskritik.

Author Biography

Bernhard Frankfurter was an international film director Before his death in 1999, he was also active as an editor, columnist, and scriptwriter, and he founded the Eastern-Western Media Network in 1994.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xiii
The Meeting	3	(148)
Wiping the Slate Clean?
Interview with Dr. Hans Wilhelm Munch	97	(34)
We Are Still Here
Interview with Dagmar Ostermann	131	(20)
Thoughts on the Totality of National Socialism and the Extermination Policies	151	(32)
Appendixes:
A. Biographical Data	169	(2)
B. Excerpt from the Acquittal of Dr. Munch	171	(2)
C. Maps of Auschwitz and Its Rail Lines	173	(4)
D. Rank Comparisons of the Waffen-SS and German Army	177	(2)
E. Register of Names	179	(4)
Glossary	183	(4)
Index	187