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Fighting Fascism and Surviving Buchenwald

The Life and Memoir of Hans Bergas

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Bension Varon has given the world two great gifts: the publication for the first time of

the remarkable 1946 Buchenwald memoir of Hans Bergas and a riveting account of

Bergas' equally remarkable life. Bergas, a highly secular German Jew, was first

known to Bension Varon as the brother-in-law of his wife's uncle. Far transcending

genealogical interest, Varon's painstaking research has revealed the many identities

of Hans Bergas: an impassioned Social Democrat, who battled both fascist and

communist threats to Germany's fledgling, interwar democracy; a member of the anti-Nazi

Resistance in France, who aided other escapees of the Nazi regime; a victim of

capture and savage torture by the Gestapo; a years-long "political" inmate in

Buchenwald, active in the camp resistance; and a gifted chronicler of life in

Buchenwald and the detail of Nazi depravity. In this volume, Bergas emerges like a

lost treasure from history's attic, precious both in itself and for what it reveals about

its troubled times.

GENRE
Biografieën en memoires
UITGEGEVEN
2015
23 juli
TAAL
EN
Engels
LENGTE
216
Pagina's
UITGEVER
Xlibris US
GROOTTE
2,4
MB
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