The Commandant: An Account by the First Commanding Officer of Auschwitz(ISBN=9781590206775)

　　An account by the first commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp who was later executed for his wartime activities shares insights into his early childhood, his ascent through the ranks of the SS and his oversight of the camp's atrocities and mass killings. 15,000 first printing.

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