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The author, an engine-driver of the österreichische Bundesbahnen, had been previously convicted on political reasons, when he was arrested by the Gestapo, in the year 1941, as his son had denounced him, because he tried to prevent the boy to enlist in the Waffen-SS. Five months of imprisonment remand; deportation together with an internee Schuster, a medical Student from Graz (p.1,4). In Vienna, they joined a transport of 869 prisoners who were all sent to the gas chambers at their arrival at Auschwitz; Schuster and the author, held back at Breslau, arrived with the next transport, on 1 May 1942. First gruesome impressions (p.2). Three months of quarantine at Block II (p.3,5) high death-rate; Kapos (p.3,7); Mass-murders: SS-Obersturmführer Aumeier and SS-Oberscharführer Boger (p.3,5,6), political department. Sick-bay (p.3-4). Narrow escape. For six weeks Blockältester at Block 10a (p.3,5-6), autumn 1942. White Russian guards killed at Block 11 after attempt to escape (p.5). Executions (p.6) Strafkompanie at Birkenau; death-rate 40-80 daily (p.6-7); professional criminal Arno Böhm (p.6).
Forced Labour as an engine-driver (from p.7). Mass-murderer Unterscharfülirer Josef Eckart (p.8,11). Administration of the gas chambers (p.8). Sonderkommandos. Block 2. Before the crematorium (p.8-9) was built (in autumn 1942), 700 000 people had been burnt in pits. Mass murder of 15,000 Russian PoWs, ordered by Sturmbannführer Fritzsch; Mass murder of Jews, at Christmas 1942; as the author did not partake in the slaughter, he was thrown down a pit and remained an invalid (p.9-10). Epidemics; sent to Block 20 at Auschwitz, the author survived through the help of Dr. Fejkiel (Cracow), Michael Olipitz and Franz Danimann (p.4,10). From March 1944 on, the author was a Blockältester at Block 19 (p.10-11).
Unmasking the informer Dr. von Bourdze who was really a former army surgeon called Sokolow (p.11-12).
After a big night-attack, the internees nursed the wounded men with great devotion, so saving the life of many SS-men. Obersturmführer Hössler promised never to forget this and soon afterwards ordered several detainees to be hanged in public. Evacuation, on 18 January 1945; Block 19 stayed put. The supplies left behind caused the death of about 400 people through overeating. Groups of SS visited the Camp, looting and murdering; Sturmbannführer Krause (p.14). The Russians arrived on 27 January 1945.
16,000 prisoners were said to have been shot dead by the SS, on the death march from Auschwitz. The author's estimate of the persons murdered at Auschwitz is five million.
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