The Auschwitz Photographer : based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444
Onnis, Maurizio2021
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When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Whermacht. 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 the 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.
Main title:
The Auschwitz Photographer : based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444 / Maurizio Onnis and Luca Crippa ; translated by Jennifer Higgins.
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Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2021.
Collation:
287 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (black & white) ; 23cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9780857527165 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318092 23
Language:
English
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BRN:
616837
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