Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers

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Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers: A book review
First published in 1979, Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers relates the experience of Filip Muller, the only known prisoner of the camp who worked as a sonderkommando at Auschwitz. The Auschwitz concentration camp was built by the Nazis and was designed to hold thousands of Jews and other prisoners. It is the largest of its kind, consisting of three main camps: Auschwitz I which was the main camp, Auschwitz II, the extermination camp and Auschwitz III, the labor camp.
As a member of the Special Command, Muller was the first to describe in detail how the extermination camp operates. His accounts are highly descriptive that he transports the reader back to the concentration camp where one will feel the same terror that the victims experienced as they realize that they are about to die; the same dread Muller had to endure as he was forced to dispose of bodies which could no longer be accommodated by the cremator. Muller writes in the first person so that the reader gets an insight to his own thoughts in order to understand how he started to hate God and all of mankind for doing nothing - for simply watching the prisoners of war suffer their fate. Eyewitness Auschwitz It talks of a period so popular yet little is known of. In the words of Yehuda Bauer, the book "is not a work of art. It is a testimony…it is a testimony, and it will undoubtedly serve as an element in attempting to approach an understanding of the dread that was Auschwitz" ADDIN Mendeley Citation{dc6fc154-67cb-4fed-af28-c89cb6628d44} CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "family" : "Muller", "given" : "Filip" } ], "edition" : "First Edit", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "1979" ] ] }, "publisher" : "Routledge \u0026 Kegan Paul Ltd.", "publisher-place" : "Chicago", "title" : "Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers", "type" : "book" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=dc6fc154-67cb-4fed-af28-c89cb6628d44" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "manualFormatting" : "(Muller ix-x)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Muller)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" } (Muller ix-x).
Commended by a number of historians such as Raul Hilberg and Yehuda Bauer (who wrote the forword of the book), Muller`s work is known in holocaust education and has work served as a primary proof of the Third Reich`s "final solution of the Jewish question" - the mass gassings at Auschwitz II. To give credibility to his memoire, Bauer writes in the foreword, "Since he first published his memoir in the 1970s, we have learned a great deal about Auscwitz, so we know that there are inaccuracies in his statistics and diagrams presented here…[but t]hese inaccuracies do not detract fro...