Inside A Gestapo Prison

Author : Krystyna Wituska
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332948
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside a Gestapo Prison written by Krystyna Wituska and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.

Author : Dr. Alfred Wallner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462043771
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Months in a Gestapo Prison written by Dr. Alfred Wallner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many heroes, the narrator of this remarkable story, his own, was a reluctant and even unwilling one. It happened when he was confronted with a moral dilemma and something within him made the right choice, to the surprise and even the disapproval of the rest of him that much wanted to protect his young family. He too was young. The time was early 1945, when savage World War II was coming to an end in Europe. Alfred Wallner, a doctor serving in the lower Austrian alps as the Allied armies closed in on Germanys appalling Third Reich that Austria had joined in 1938, detested the Nazis but not enough to risk virtually certain death if hed be caught helping Americans. But he did help a team of them and was quickly caught, after which he was taken to a Gestapo prison where the people he met, from his cellmates to the warders, were not merely a fascinating cast of characters but also a fair sample of the types one encounters in any country under stress. In that way and others, Dr. Wallners story is a cautionary as well as a gripping tale, and it contains a great surprise.

Author : Irene Tomaszewski
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338879
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside a Gestapo Prison written by Irene Tomaszewski and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of World War II, Krystyna Wituska, a carefree teenager attending finishing school in Switzerland, returned to Poland. During the occupation, when she was twenty years old, she drifted into the Polish Underground. By her own admission, she was attracted first by the adventure, but her youthful bravado soon turned into a mental and spiritual mastery over fear. Because Krystyna spoke fluent German, she was assigned to collect information on German troop movements at Warsaw's airport. In 1942, at age twenty-one, she was arrested by the Gestapo and transferred to prison in Berlin, where she was executed two years later. Eighty of the letters that Krystyna wrote in the last eighteen months of her life are translated and collected in this volume. The letters, together with an introduction providing historical background to Krystyna's arrest, constitute a little-known and authentic record of the treatment of ethnic Poles under German occupation, the experience of Polish prisoners in German custody, and a glimpse into the prisons of Berlin. Krystyna's letters also reflect her own courage, idealism, faith, and sense of humor. As a classroom text, this book relates nicely to contemporary discussions of racism, nationalism, patriotism, human rights, and stereotypes.

Author : Werner Jung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783954512393
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walls that talk written by Werner Jung and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carsten Dams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019966921X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gestapo written by Carsten Dams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the latest research to present a history of the Gestapo, from its creation during the Weimar Republic to the fate of its officers after World War II, and unravel the truths and mysteries behind its rule.

Author : Tom Firth
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844684822
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of the Gestapo written by Tom Firth and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in Warsaw, Poland. However they became split up when Poland became overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older brother were in England, Tom found himself trapped in the Russian-occupied part of the country and, after several agonizing months, eventually made his way to Warsaw where his mother had managed to survive the bombing of the city. He vividly describes life under both regimes, as well as the cat-and-mouse game his mother was forced to play with the Gestapo in order to avoid arrest. Later, both became deeply involved with the sheltering of escaped British prisoners of war and it was this activity which led to his capture and imprisonment in a jail in Krakow. Miraculously released after eighteen months captivity, largely due to his command of the Polish language, he vowed to escape to Britain at all cost.Later in the war and after many harrowing experiences he succeeded in getting through to the Red Army, but was again faced with hostility, suspicion and imprisonment. Held for several months in primitive conditions, he, along with two British companions was finally taken to Moscow and handed over to the British Military Mission there. Arriving in Scotland with a convoy of supply ships late in December 1944, he had the galling experience of spending a night in Brixton Prison. With nowhere to go he then began a frantic search for his father and brother, who were convinced that he was dead. His dream came true, but even after the ending of hostilities and later in time, tragedy struck with the news of his mothers arrest by the Polish Communist authorities. Sentenced to death for alleged espionage, she spent several years in prison, being freed in a Government amnesty and arriving in England in 1956.

Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228295
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler’s Prisons written by Nikolaus Wachsmann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and operated this system of brutal legal terror. Nikolaus Wachsmann describes the operation and function of legal terror in the Third Reich and brings Nazi prisons to life through the harrowing stories of individual inmates. Drawing on a vast array of archival materials, he traces the series of changes in prison policies and practice that led eventually to racial terror, brutal violence, slave labor, starvation, and mass killings. Wachsmann demonstrates that “ordinary” legal officials were ready collaborators who helped to turn courts and prisons into key components in the Nazi web of terror. And he concludes with a discussion of the whitewash of the Nazi legal system in postwar West Germany.

Author : Gilly Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472512960
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands written by Gilly Carr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazi occupation of Europe of World War Two is acknowledged as a defining juncture and an important identity-building experience throughout contemporary Europe. Resistance is what 'saves' European societies from an otherwise chequered record of collaboration on the part of their economic, political, cultural and religious elites. Opposition took pride of place as a legitimizing device in the post-war order and has since become an indelible part of the collective consciousness. Yet there is one exception to this trend among previously occupied territories: the British Channel Islands. Collective identity construction in the islands still relies on the notion of 'orderly and correct relations' with the Germans, while talk of 'resistance' earns raised eyebrows. The general attitude to the many witnesses of conscience who existed in the islands remains ambiguous. This book conversely and expertly argues that there was in fact resistance against the Germans in the Channel Islands and is the first text to fully explore the complex relationship that existed between the Germans and the people of the only part of the British Isles to experience occupation.

Author : James D. Shipman
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1496723880
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irena's War written by James D. Shipman and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a reading group guide with discussion questions.

Author : Lore Shelley
Publisher : Shengold Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secretaries of Death written by Lore Shelley and published by Shengold Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of 27 Jewish women (and four non-Jewish men) who worked in the office of the Politische Abteilung at Auschwitz. also gives details on women and men who are deceased or who chose not to contribute.