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Auschwitz A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Miklos Nyiszli

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death...

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Behind the Bastards

It was recommended as a harrowing but short read for those who want a personal physical context of what Auschwitz was like. The transcript quoted a section of it, detailing the typhus outbreak and liquidation of the Czech camp.

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I recommend if you want to get an actual degree of personal physical context for what it was like there. Miklos Niesley's memoir, Auschwitz, a doctor's eyewitness account is short. You can finish it i...

— Episode: Part Three: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doc...

Episode: Part Three: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

It was recommended as a harrowing but short read for those who want a personal physical context of what Auschwitz was like. The transcript quoted a section of it, detailing the typhus outbreak and liquidation of the Czech camp.

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I recommend if you want to get an actual degree of personal physical context for what it was like there. Miklos Niesley's memoir, Auschwitz, a doctor's eyewitness account is short. You can finish it in an afternoon. It's not a long book and it's fucking harrowing.

The quarantine camp, C camp, D camp and the F section were terribly overcrowded, despite the quotas which were filled daily for shipment to more distant camps.

The Czech section of the Auschwitz concentration camp was liquidated. This date, due to a prevalence of typhus among the prisoners. Signed, Dr. Mengele, Hauptsturmfhrer.

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