Author: HOESS, RUDOLF; LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL (INTRODUCTION); FITZGIBBON, CONSTANTINE (TRANSLATOR)
Title: Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess [Polish Title: "Wspomnienia"]
Description: USA: The World Publishing Company, 1959. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. "Author was taken prisoner by the British, handed over to the Poles, tried, sentenced to death, taken back to Auschwitz and there hanged. During the period between his trial and his execution, he was ordered to write his autobiography. This is it." - dust jacket. 285 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. First published in Polish in 1951 as 'Wspomnienia'. Former library copy with most of their markings removed. Binding intact. Above-average wear to original orange cloth decorated in barbed wire motif. Back free endpaper removed. Above-average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival protection. A sound reading copy of this historic WWII autobiography. Kehr & Langmaid 6069, Enser p. 113, Weiner Library Cat. Series 7 - 1641a. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess Concentration Camps wwII Second World War Holocaust Jews. Fair in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: 1939 1945 Prisoners Prisons German Criminals 1900 1947 Höss Poland ( Camp) Biography Conspiracy History