Hello Alex

Memoirs of Rudolph Höss, the SS Commander of Auschwitz:

Paskuly, Steven. "Death dealer: The memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz." Buffalo: Prometheus Books 256 (1992).

Wittmann, Rebecca. Beyond justice: the Auschwitz trial. Harvard University Press, 2012.

KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS. Publications of Państwowe Muzeum, 1972. ISBN 978-0865273467

Dillon, Christopher. Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Regards, I hope this helps

Tom

Hi Tom and Ivo, 

Thank you for the notes. Luckily I have already managed to find most of the sources, but wanted to check that I wasn't missing any key areas of research. Thank you very much for the interest and advice, it has proven most useful when conducting my research for my paper.

Dear Alex,

if German litareature is useful to you, I recommend the Interview of Dan Bar-On with the former SS-physician Hans Münch, who had been working in Auschwitz. I don't know if there's any translation of that Interview. In German it was published as "Rationalisierung der Schrecken des Holocaust mit Hilfe einer limitierten persönlichen Moral: Interviews mit einem Arzt von Auschwitz und seinem Sohn", in: Helgard Kramer (ed.): Die Gegenwart der NS-Vergangenheit, Berlin/Vienna 2000, p. 77-92.

Then the testimony of SS-Unterscharführer Pery Broad: Aussage von Pery Broad, einem SS-Mann der politischen Abteilung im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, Oswiecem 1969. I'm sure that there must be some translation into English language.

You might also find useful: Fritz Bauer Institute and State Museum of Auschwitz (ed.): Der Auschwitzprozess (The Auschwitz-Trial). Tonbandmitschnitte, Protokolle, Dokumente (Live tape recordings, protocols, documents), Berlin 2004.

I found extremely useful: Hermann Langbein, Der Auschwitz-Prozess. Eine Dokumentation, Frankfurt/Main 1995 [first published 1965].

Regards & best wishes

Sven

Dear Sven, 

Thank you very much for your recommendations. Do you know of any accessible English translations of Pery Broads account? The only account I can find so far is the translation in KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS, however I will not be able to access this publication till the end of the week. 

Kind regards, 

Alex 

Dear Alex,

yeah, I just found a translation. Here it comes:

KZ Auschwitz: reminiscences of an SS-man in the Auswitz concentration camp / by Pery Broad; translated from German by Krystyna Michalik, Oswiecim 1965.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Sven

Alex, I am curious to learn about your research. Could you let us know the basic outline? Is this a thesis?

Best regards

Tom

Hi Tom, 

Unfortunately it is not a thesis. It is an undergraduate assessment essay. The actual title is 

‘The smell of burning flesh lodged itself in my nostrils’: Smell and the Holocaust

A brief case study of olfactory perceptions at Auschwitz and Dachau Concentration Camps

I have been attempting to consider Holocaust History from different sensory approaches. 

Thank you again for all your recommendations on reading materials. 

Hello Alex

Interesting essay; I can recommend two very pertinent books (testimonial narration) which cover deeply your subject:

MÜLLER, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: three years in the gas chambers. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1999 [1979]).

See also  transcript of Claude Lanzmann’s video interview with Filip Müller, Story RG-60.5012, Tape 3206-3215, (1985); see URL [http://resources.ushmm.org/film/display/detail.php?file_num=4745], visited 2.9.2014;

Mr. Müller was a Sonderkommando member in Auschwitz, in charge of burning corpses that were gassed.

Nyiszli, Miklós. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. (New York: Arcade Publishing, Inc., 1993)

Dr. Nyiszli was Mengele's assistant in Auschwitz and was assigned by him to check often the gas chambers and crematoria. His book reveals the daily murdering and cremating of the people arriving from Hungary, the last victims of the Nazis' savagery.

Of course, these two testimonies are given not by guards but by Jews who worked very closely and inside the murdering buildings. I read both books as source for my book about the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia; they are heartbreaking and very realistic accounts.

I would very much like to read your essay once you have presented it and are free to publish it.

Regards, all the best

Tom