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0857527169
Book The Auschwitz photographer: based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444; Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis; translated from the Italian by Jennifer Higgins
Year: 2021
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 940.53185385*
Publisher: Doubleday, 2021
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9780857527165
Notes:
When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the camp. He began by taking identification photographs of prisoners as they entered the camp, went on to capture the criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele, and also recorded executions. Between 1940 and 1945, Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the horror around him. He took them because he had no choice. Eventually, Brasse's conscience wouldn't allow him to hide behind his camera.
Extent: xiii, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (b
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