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“Many impressive books have been written about German horror camps where, from 1939 until 1945, human beings were subjected to degrading experiences, or were destroyed like swarms of helpless insects.
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The camp where I stayed for several years has received less publicity than the larger and more smoothly run DACHAU and RAVENSBRÜCK camps where mass extermination was carried out with cold efficiency.
Our camp was called BRZEZINKI, in German BIRKENAU. Some prisoners nicknamed it RAJSKO. In literal translation this means “HEAVEN-LIKE”.
In Brzezinki-Birkenau, mass murder was carried out on such a fantastic scale that the executioners had set up five crematories. Almost all the inmates were destroyed and only a few lived long enough to greet their liberators. Except for one book written by a Polish woman thus far, no report has been graved on flintstone by any of the liberated Polish Jobs.
I am not a writer and my story will be a plain and frank account of things which I have witnessed and experienced in nine prisons and in three concentration camps, from which I was miraculously saved by God. It is not my aim to evoke your pity, nor to arouse your wrath against the Germans. I wish only to help you to realize what happens when man rejects God and when his passions become his sole master. He will then commit every kind of inhuman crime, whereas if he follows the Golden Rule he will withstand the most ruthless pressure and even in the midst of inhuman sufferings will desperately cling to his faith.
I wish to stir the conscience of statesmen so that they may unify their efforts in preventing a repetition of the crimes committed in the name of an omnipotent and evil deity—the STATE.”-Foreword
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The camp where I stayed for several years has received less publicity than the larger and more smoothly run DACHAU and RAVENSBRÜCK camps where mass extermination was carried out with cold efficiency.
Our camp was called BRZEZINKI, in German BIRKENAU. Some prisoners nicknamed it RAJSKO. In literal translation this means “HEAVEN-LIKE”.
In Brzezinki-Birkenau, mass murder was carried out on such a fantastic scale that the executioners had set up five crematories. Almost all the inmates were destroyed and only a few lived long enough to greet their liberators. Except for one book written by a Polish woman thus far, no report has been graved on flintstone by any of the liberated Polish Jobs.
I am not a writer and my story will be a plain and frank account of things which I have witnessed and experienced in nine prisons and in three concentration camps, from which I was miraculously saved by God. It is not my aim to evoke your pity, nor to arouse your wrath against the Germans. I wish only to help you to realize what happens when man rejects God and when his passions become his sole master. He will then commit every kind of inhuman crime, whereas if he follows the Golden Rule he will withstand the most ruthless pressure and even in the midst of inhuman sufferings will desperately cling to his faith.
I wish to stir the conscience of statesmen so that they may unify their efforts in preventing a repetition of the crimes committed in the name of an omnipotent and evil deity—the STATE.”-Foreword
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Angela MacFarlane
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December 11, 2018
This is the story of a priest who was sent to a concentration camp during Hitler's reign. I won't say that I enjoyed this book, because who can enjoy such suffering, but I will say that it was very enlightening. The incidences that are related here show the sides of man that are often forgotten. All it takes for this to happen again is for good men to forget. Let's all vow not to be that man, and remember those who lost their lives and those who endured such horrific monstrosities.
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Ewelina R
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September 9, 2017
This book is poorly written and simplistic. The raise of Hitler has nothing to do with breakdown of Catholic church. In fact not only the pope but also many priests supported the Nazis in antisemitism, which in Catholic faith is very well rooted. Author paints the priests like some kind of saint creatures, whereas in many other accounts I have read they were in fact cowardly and greedy. Not all of them of course, but like with any part of society the were the good and the bad. All in all it is very simplified account - raise of Nazism was not the effect of people not being Catholic, or Christian, it is downward offensive to all that died to say it was.
Bil w/ One L
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December 27, 2017
I've read quite a few Holocaust Books & Testimonials over the years. And, have got a Greater insight into this Subject, to which I have a long standing fascination & Feelings about. Having said this, yours has giving me the most understandable, informative, and well written summary for the Awesomely, low price of (under) $3.00 Sincerely, Thank You.🔯
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