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Death Dealer, The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
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Death Dealer, The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz Hardcover - 1992 - 1st Edition

by Hoss, Rudolf; Höss; edited by Steven Paskuly

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By his own admission, Rudolf Hoss was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately 2 million people, mostly Jews, at Auschwitz, Poland. This is the first complete translation into English of this cold killer's memoirs. 24-page photo insert.

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Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1992. A gorgeous copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hoss (or Hoess) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people. He wrote these memoirs shortly before he was executed in 1947. DEATH DEALER is the first complete translation of Hoss's memoirs into English. Published here for the first time are several photos, including those of Hoss, the camp, and Nazi occupied Poland; original diagrams of the camp; minutes of the Wannsee conference, etc. Edited by Steven Paskuly. First printing with complete number row (54321) on the copyright page. Illustrated with 16 pages of Nazi-era photos/documents/diagrams. Bound in the original gilt-stamped pebble-grained black cloth. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 390pp. + 16 pages of illustrations. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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  • Title Death Dealer, The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
  • Author Hoss, Rudolf; Höss; edited by Steven Paskuly
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First Printing of the First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine condition
  • Pages 414
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York
  • Date 1992
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 017825
  • ISBN 9780879757144 / 0879757140
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.68 x 1.13 in (21.44 x 14.43 x 2.87 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92002763
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Hoss was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first complete translation of Hoss's memoirs into English. The Memoirs of Kommandant Rudolf Hoss were written between October 1946 and April 1947. At the suggestion of psychologist Professor Stanislaw Batawia and Professor Jan Sehn, the prosecuting attorney for the Polish War Crimes Commission in Warsaw, Hoss wrote explanations of how the camp developed, his impressions of the various personalities with whom he dealt, and even about the destruction of the millions in the gas chambers. This written testimony is perhaps the most important document attesting to the Holocaust, because it is the only candid, detailed, and (for the most part) honest description of the Final Solution from a high-ranking SS officer intimately involved in carrying out the plans of Hitler and Himmler. With the cold objectivity of a common hit-man, Kommandant Hoss bloodlessly chronicles the discovery of the most effective poison gas and the technical obstacles that often thwarted his aim to kill as efficiently as possible. Staring at the horror without reacting, Hoss allows conditions in his camp to reduce human beings to walking skeletons, then he labels them as subhumans fit only to die. Readers will witness Hoss's shallow rationalizations as he tries to balance his deeds with his increasingly disturbed, yet always ineffectual, conscience. Published here for the first time are several photographs, including those of Hoss, the Nazi occupation of Poland, and of the camp itself; original diagrams of the camps; the original minutes of the Wannsee conference; and Hoss's final letters.

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  • Library Journal, 06/15/1992, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/23/1992, Page 0

About the author

Rudolf Hss (1901-1947) was an SS lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany. He was a close adviser to Hitler and one of the chief proponents of the "Final Solution." After the close of World War II, he was put on trial in Warsaw for mass murder, convicted, and unceremoniously hanged. The book, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, is an English translation of these memoirs written between October 1946 and April 1947.

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