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Author:

Hirsh, Michael, 1943-

Title:

The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust / Michael Hirsh.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Bantam Books,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvii, 356 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Liberation.--Liberation.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria.
Concentration camps--Germany--History--20th century.
Concentration camps--Austria--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-339) and index.

Contents:

How do you prepare to see that? -- The beginning of the end -- Life and death in Berga -- Incomprehensible -- Springtime for Hitler -- Little boys became men -- Mere death was not bad enough for the Nazis -- Ike knew this would be denied -- Buchenwald : this ain't no place I wanna be -- Gardelegen : even the good Germans had blood on their hands -- Bergen-Belsen -- I start crying and I can't talk any more -- Landsberg : the Kaufering camps -- Dachau : shock beyond belief -- They're killing Jews : who cares? -- Gusen-Mauthausen : how sadistic can you be? -- You are still individually and collectively responsible -- After the war, and long after the war.

Summary:

At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Here we meet the brave souls who--now in their eighties and nineties--have chosen at last to share their stories.

ISBN:

0553807560
9780553807561

OCLC:

(OCoLC)368020676

LCCN:

2009042954

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

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CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

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LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

VSSX062 -- Vinton-Shellsburg CSD (Vinton)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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