The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician
(Part of the Religion, Theology and the Holocaust Series)
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Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm M nch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.
In this rare interview M nch--the only SS member acquitted during the 1947 Cracow war crimes trial refers to himself as a "victim," claiming that because he had to follow orders he was "no less a victim than his prisoners." The Meeting grew out of a documentary film in which M nch was first interviewed by Viennese filmmaker Bernhard Frankfurter. As head of the Waffen SS Hygiene Institute M nch had controlled hundreds of lives. Intrigued by M nch's responses, Frankfurter arranged for Ostermann, whose mother was German and her father Jewish, to conduct a book-length interview, for which he provided a concluding essay. The dramatic structure of the discussion follows the events of the Nazi occupation chronologically. As Ostermann initiates questions regarding reasons for M nch's involvement (Was it a conscious endeavor? Did he participate willingly?), the book adds important new information to the testimonial literature of the Holocaust.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0815606680
ISBN13:9780815606680
Release Date:August 2021
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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