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Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
Robert H. Abzug
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Description for Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
Paperback. This book describes the dreadful impact of the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps by allied troops in 1945 in the words of eye-witnesses, in photogreaphs and in the author's own narrative. Num Pages: 208 pages, numerous halftones, map. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, and other concentration camps, and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of slave labor and genocide. What they saw transformed the definition of evil in the Western mind. Inside the Vicious Heart captures the shock of that discovery by telling the story of the camp liberations as experienced by American GIs and other eyewitnesses, including Eisenhower, Patton, Joseph Pulitzer, and Margaret Bourke-White. Through their diaries, letters, and photographs we see how those Americans finally made the world believe what until then had only been rumored. ... Read more
Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, and other concentration camps, and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of slave labor and genocide. What they saw transformed the definition of evil in the Western mind. Inside the Vicious Heart captures the shock of that discovery by telling the story of the camp liberations as experienced by American GIs and other eyewitnesses, including Eisenhower, Patton, Joseph Pulitzer, and Margaret Bourke-White. Through their diaries, letters, and photographs we see how those Americans finally made the world believe what until then had only been rumored. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Weight
322g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195042368
SKU
V9780195042368
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Ref
99-27
About Robert H. Abzug
Robert H. Abzug is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform.
Reviews for Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
"This book helps to keep live that which must not be forgotten."
David B. Chesebrough, Illinois State University "This sensitive book chronicles the liberators' psychological and emotional reactions to the concentration camps...An important contribution."
Religious Studies Review "Abzug tells a true and terrifying story of what the American troops found when they entered Germany in 1945. Included are the accounts of Generals ... Read more
David B. Chesebrough, Illinois State University "This sensitive book chronicles the liberators' psychological and emotional reactions to the concentration camps...An important contribution."
Religious Studies Review "Abzug tells a true and terrifying story of what the American troops found when they entered Germany in 1945. Included are the accounts of Generals ... Read more