A report on three interviews given on 12, 13 and 18 January 1956. Mr Mannheimer and his family were evacuated from their town on the Czech border, in November 1938 and went to Ungar-Brod. From there they were transported to Theresienstadt on 28 January 1943. One thousand were sent on to Auschwitz after a selection made with the help of the Jewish administration who assisted the Gestapo; about 800 of them directly taken to the gas-chambers (p.2). Icy cold bath, two hours standing in the frost; three weeks’ quarantine (p.3).

Forced labour. Atrocities. SS Sturmführer Dr. Mengele (p.4). Fate of sick people (p.4-6). Kapos (p.4-6, 10). Executions (p.6-7). Experiments and sterilisation (p.6). Labour in the Warsaw Ghetto. Lagerältester Walter Wawrziecziniak (p.8, 10). Typhoid fever, death rate 80% (p.9-10); suggestion sent to Berlin headquarters, to liquidate the camp by shooting all internees was declined twice. (p.10-11). Statistics regarding the dead (p.11). Lublin (p.11).

March to Kudno; horrible transport to Dachau (p.12). Aktion; deportation to Dachau of former members of Geverkschafte and SPD who had been arrested and released, in 1934. Arrival of former high officers from Italy (p.12). Karlsfeld camp near Dachau (p.13). Baufirma Sager & Allach Worner; Kommandoführer Jensch set his dog at the workers (p13). Muhldorf camp; Isolier lager Kaurfering near Landsberg. Lagerkommandant Eberle (p.14).

Evacuation of camp; casualties through bombs; the intention to take the transport to Kochel and have the prisoners killed there by the SS was frustrated through their liberation near Tutzing, on 30 April 1945. Four weeks at Feldafing; return to Czechoslovakia (p.15).

A report by a 56-year-old author on his experience of six months at Dachau and one month at Buchenwald. The Nazis’ methodical education to hateful contempt, cruel ill-treatment and pitiless annihilation of the so-called ‘Untermenschen’.

Vivid description of life in Concentration Camp. The information is “packed” into many short chapters, each an interesting and significant cross section, but together forming a complete readable “film” on the subject.

The book is concerned with the best known camp Dachau, and the most dreaded one, Buchenwald. It is shown that Dachau, although rightly pictured as a living hell, was almost a paradise compared with Buchenwald.

It is emphasised that apart from the purpose of creating terror, another purpose of these Camps is to educate the Nazi youth to ruthless bestiality. It also shows that these Nazi methods at the same time educate unflinching, resolute enemies to Nazidom. Just as Germany's armament rearmed the entire world so their Concentration Camps not only crush, but also create deadly opposition. Ordinary people develop into determined fighters against Nazism. Whilst the book as such shows this development by describing the setting (as done classically in Dostojewsky's “Memoirs of a House of the Dead”).

As the author has been an editor and particularly a picture editor for twenty years and made it his task to observe and note everything in the Camp, he together with a draftsman could illustrate the book by line drawings in the most accurate manner if so desired.

A report on ill-treatment of the worst kind, atrocities, horrible conditions of life in camps and during transports; mass-murders. Also includes information on the author's deportation from Frankfurt am Main to Minsk where he arrived in 22 November 1941; unbelievably bad conditions; vermin (p.1, 4, 6). The Robert Ley-House (p.1). Wehrmacht and SS (p.1). When a gun was found at the Loot-Commando, left there by Russian workmen, every seventh of the Jewish detainees was shot including a former reserve officer who held both Iron Crosses.

High death-rate because of starvation (p.2, 6, 8) and mass-murder (p.2-5). Unteroffizier Peter Greven late of Cologne, saved the lives of five men of the Heeresbaudienst Stelle on occasion of the massacre of 60 internees. In July 1942, 8,000 Jews were murdered during one Aktion (p.2). Heeresverpflecmagazin: Oberzahlmeister Heinrich (p.2-3) ordered the Yellow Star not to be worn in the Office, his successor did not object, but Oberscharführer Rübe (on 13 March 1943) had the 12 girls and 4 women of the Office led to the cemetery by sixteen Russians to be shot there, including the author's twenty-year-old daughter, his only child. On 26 May 1943, Gestapo-men shot dead every living being at the sick-bay, patients, nurses, children and visitors alike. On this occasion, the author lost his wife who had fallen ill when she learned of her young daughter's fate.

In September 1943, all bachelors and girls were taken to the SS-labour camp in Minsk; the married people and children were never heard of again. In vans said to be transporting 120 men each to the labour-places, the passengers were being killed by burnt gas (p.3).

The author was transferred to the Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke in Budztn, Poland (p.3-4). Ill-treatment by the German foremen; wretched conditions of life; vermin and epidemics (p.4). Loudspeakers recording music during the mass-murder of twenty thousand Jews, on 23 November 1943 (p.4). At Heinkels’ at Milec, a Hauptwachtmeister, late of a police-station at Frankfurt am Main, shot the Baracken-Älteste Zimmermann, because he found the place not clean enough; he was also responsible for cruel punishments and atrocities.

In July 1944, the author was transported to Welicka and in September was sent on a horrible transport to Mauthausen (p.4-6) which turned out to be worse than any of the dreadful places before. Doing incredibly heavy work in the quarry, rushed and beaten up constantly. Mass-murders. After three months, he was transported to the Hermann-Goring Works at the Camp of Linz of about two thousand men. Cruel ill-treatment. Public execution of three Russians who had tried to escape. Air-raid; a bomb killing 110 detainees at Block 13 (p.5). Starvation (p.6); frost; vermin. On 5 May 1945, the author was liberated by the Americans. The Spanish Legion. The Hermann-Goring-Lazarett (p.6).

The author accuses Seck and the SS-officers Reese, Nickel, Tekemeyer and Otto Mohr of murdering 16 Jews at Salaspils in 1942. Among the victims was a Latvian Jew, called Heppy who was very popular because of his character and the help he had given to thousands of Jews. Whenever people were to be shot or hung the above or other high ranking officers of the Gestapo had to be present at the execution.