In 1940, the author was arrested at Sosnowitz, a small town in Poland evacuated in 1943.

A skilled worker at various forced labour camps, at Auschwitz he could not go on witnessing the horrible circumstances of the camp (p.2-5); vermin; epidemics (p.6); he managed to be sent to Warsaw in summer 1943 (p.5-7). People found alive under the ruins of the Ghetto were shot (p.7). Death march of 4,000 (p.7-9). Dachau, Arbeitslager Muehldorf, high death-rate. In April 1945, he was sent on an aimless transport for eight days; bombed; many casualties; at Seeshaupt, Starnberger See, he was liberated by the Americans who gathered at the train the whole population to show them this example of German civilisation (p.10).