The Anatomy of Hell

[Mark Kohut]

I did not consciously intend any Ulysses reference!...just tried for
succinctness to hook.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> And so the Ulysses reference was to emphasize the status of Kogon's book as
> a "classic?"
> OK, I didn't get that.
>
>
> On 25.06.2015 13:30, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>> As Kai implies, this is a CLASSIC. If one needs/wants to read about
>> the horrors of the concentration camps,
>> this is THE ONE, I tried to say aphoristically and if it is the ONLY
>> one that one reads because the subject
>> might be too tough to keep reading about....Kogon's perspective will
>> stay with one forever.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> ???
>>>
>>> On 25.06.2015 11:23, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>>
>>> if you want to read one and can't read another....
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v19/n12/lawrence-rainey/how-molly-bloom-got-her-apostrophes
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Jun 25, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The first study on Nazi Concentration Camps was "Der SS-Staat. Das System
>>> der deutschen Konzentrationslager" by Eugen Kogon from the year 1946.
>>> It's
>>> based on his own experiences as an inmate in Buchenwald and unfolds a
>>> general sociological perspective. A recommendable read.
>>>
>>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_SS-Staat
>>> http://d-nb.info/959859810/04
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Kogon
>>>
>>> "Es ist keiner so herausgekommen, wie er hineingegangen ist."
>>> (22. Auflage, 1989, p. 382)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25.06.2015 03:21, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>>
>>> The Anatomy of Hell
>>>
>>> Richard J. Evans
>>> JULY 9, 2015 ISSUE
>>>
>>> BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
>>>
>>> KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
>>> by Nikolaus Wachsmann
>>> Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 865 pp., $40.00
>>>
>>> Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps
>>> by Kim Wünschmann
>>> Harvard University Press, 367 pp., $45.00
>>>
>>> Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
>>> by Sarah Helm
>>> Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 743 pp., $37.50
>>>
>>> Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration
>>> Camp, 1942–1944
>>> by Elissa Mailänder, translated from the German by Patricia Szobar
>>> Michigan State University Press, 405 pp., $49.95
>>>
>>> The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
>>> by Dan Stone
>>> Yale University Press, 277 pp., $32.50
>>>
>>> Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust
>>> by Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer
>>> NYU Press, 374 pp., $45.00
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jul/09/concentration-camps-anatomy-hell/
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