Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the exterminatio
This detailed work explores the internal society of the Nazi concentration camps and the types of resistance which inmates brought to bear against their captors. The author, who participated in such resistance himself, deals with the conditions of the camps, as well as tension and cohesion between groups of prisoners. most of the research that went into the book is based on conversations with survivors