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The Auschwitz photographer

The Auschwitz photographer
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400275038 BIOG 940 CRI
Biographies   Gunnedah . . Available .  
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ISBN 9780857527462
Name Crippa, Luca author.
Uniform title Fotografo di Auschwitz English
Title The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444
Published London : Doubleday, 2021
Description xiii, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes Originally published in Italian under the title Il fotografio di Auschwitz.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the camp. He began by taking identification photographs of prisoners as they entered the camp, went on to capture the criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele, and also recorded executions. Between 1940 and 1945, Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the horror around him. He took them because he had no choice. Eventually, Brasse's conscience wouldn't allow him to hide behind his camera. First he risked his life by joining the camp's Resistance movement, faking documents for prisoners, trying to smuggle images to the outside world to reveal what was happening. Then, when Soviet troops finally advanced on the camp to liberate it, Brasse refused SS orders to destroy his photographs. 'Because the world must know,' he said.
Language note Translated from the Italian.
Subjects Brasse, Wilhelm, -- 1917-2012
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Biography
Portrait photographers
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