Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess

An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed. Before this, he had worked in other concentration camps, and afterward, he was at the Inspectorate in Berlin. He thus knew more, both first-hand and as an administrator, about Nazi Germany's greatest crime. Taken prisoner by the ...