Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry : Supramolecular Technology

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In this last volume of the set, a state-of-the-art overview of (future) supramolecular technology and its current applications is given, but without attempting to cover all possible emerging new technologies.
In the first part of this volume (Chapters 1-6) separation technologies based on selective molecular recognition are dealt with.
The transduction of a chemical recognition phenomenon into a measurable signal is discussed in Chapters 7-10.
The next section covers the area of supramolecular reactivity. The design of molecules that will fit the transition state of a chemical reaction is one of the major challenges in supramolecular chemistry. This stabilization leads to catalysis. Related to this topic are the contents of Chapters 12-14 where the activation of reactive anions by complexation of the cation, phase-transfer catalysis, and the storage of reagents are reviewed.
Medical applications such as drug delivery from, or imaging and targeting by, supramolecular systems are described in Chapters 16 and 17.
The last part of this volume covers different material properties ranging from inclusion polymerization to nonlinear optical materials.

Electron and Energy Transfer in Supramolecular Complexes Designed for Artificial Photosynthesis (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, 631)

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Helena Berglund Baudin
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The Finite Element Method (FEM) has become an indispensable technology for the modelling and simulation of engineering systems. Written for engineers and students alike, the aim of the book is to provide the necessary theories and techniques of the FEM for readers to be able to use a commercial FEM package to solve primarily linear problems in mechanical and civil engineering with the main focus on structural mechanics and heat transfer.

Fundamental theories are introduced in a straightforward way, and state-of-the-art techniques for designing and analyzing engineering systems, including microstructural systems are explained in detail. Case studies are used to demonstrate these theories, methods, techniques and practical applications, and numerous diagrams and tables are used throughout.

The case studies and examples use the commercial software package ABAQUS, but the techniques explained are equally applicable for readers using other applications including NASTRAN, ANSYS, MARC, etc.

Full sets of PowerPoint slides developed by the authors for their course on FEM are available as a free download from a companion website.

* A practical and accessible guide to this complex, yet important subject
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Numerical Partial Differential Equations for Environmental Scientists and Engineers: A First Practical Course

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Daniel R. Lynch
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This book concerns the practical solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). It reflects an interdisciplinary approach to problems occurring in natural environmental media: the hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and ionosphere. It assumes the reader has gained some intuitive knowledge of PDE solution properties and now wants to solve some for real, in the context of practical problems arising in real situations. The practical aspect of this book is the infused focus on computation. It presents two major discretization methods – Finite Difference and Finite Element. The blend of theory, analysis, and implementation practicality supports solving and understanding complicated problems. It is divided into three parts. Part I is an overview of Finite Difference Methods. Part II focuses on Finite Element Methods, including an FEM tutorial. Part III deals with Inverse Methods, introducing formal approaches to practical problems which are ill-posed.

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A self-portrait, composed by one of the greatest monsters of all time: Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant at Auschwitz, and the man who knew more than almost anyone about how Nazi Germany implemented the Final Solution. Captured by the British after the war, tried, and sentenced to death, he was ordered to write his autobiography in the weeks between his trial and his execution (which fittingly took place in Auschwitz itself). Hoess apparently enjoyed the task, and the most careful checking by researchers showed he took great pains to tell the truth. The result: a vivid and unforgettable picture of the 20th century's defining and most horrific event. Royalties from this book go to the fund to help the few survivors of Auschwitz.

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A Mistress of Rudolf Hoess Interviewed.......2006-10-15

After Dachau was liberated, Army intelligence interviewed a woman at the camp who claimed to have been Rudolf Hoess' mistress while at Auschwitz. What details they could check were confirmed, and her interview became part of a Seventh Army report issued a few weeks later, a report that has been republished as Dachau Liberated: The Official Report (ISBN: 1587420031). For those who want to understand the infamous Hoess, that interview of "E.H." provides a background to his obviously self-serving autobiography. Here's a short passage from her interview:

"According to my recollection, on December 16, 1942, about 11 p.m. I was already asleep, suddenly the C.O. appeared before me. I hadn't heard the opening of my cell and was such frightened. It was dark in the cell. I believed at first it was an SS man or a prisoner and said, "What is this tomfoolery, I forbid you." Then I heard "Pst," and a pocket lamp was lighted and lit the face of the C.O. I broke out "Herr Kommandant."

Hoess didn't mention this clandestine affair in his autobiography, but details she gave fit with his account and with conditions at Auschwitz.

Fascinating & Disturbing.......2006-07-14

This book was very disturbing on so many levels. Yet it was also fascinating to see the progression of this semi-average person, into a person who was responsible for the deaths of millions. Read the intro by Primo Levi first to get yourself in the right frame of mind.

An Easily Debunked Fraud.......2006-04-27

This so-called "autobiography" is fiction, written, coached, and co-authored under the extreme duress of a Stalinist prison, and it shows in it's shoddy attention to the detail of the lies.

For example, the book is chronologically unsound.

According to his book, Hoess is ordered to come to Berlin "in the summer of 1941". The book then contains a glaring impossibility in that Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler allegedly tells him; "The existing annihilation sites in the East (Belzec, Sobibor, and Trblinka), are not in a position to handle the major actions envisaged."
The problem is that according to standard holocaust mythology, the alleged killing activities of these camps only got started "exterminating" in the summer of 1942. In 1941, there were no "existing extermination sites in the East".
For that reason, Jean-Claude Pressac claims the meeting must have been 1942. That, however, creates further contadictions in chronology.

Firstly, Himmler's 1942 appointment book survived the war, and it contains no such entry. Once the attack on the Soviet Union began, Himmler was hardly ever even in Berlin.

Secondly, by the summer of 1942, Hoess is supposedly already "gassing" Jews.

Further contradictions with factual detail abound.

UNRELIABLE TESTIMONY.......2006-04-15

Rudolf Hoess was the Allies' most important witness to the "Holocaust." His affidavit
and his testimony were quoted extensively both by the prosecution and in the judgment
of the IMT at Nuremberg, as well as by the press. Hoess's "confession" is heavily
relied upon by historians like Raul Hilberg and others as a primary documentary
source to this day.

It is true that Hoess witnessed at Nuremberg to horrendous "atrocities," and he also
confirmed the "truth" under oath of an affidavit which he agreed to sign for the
prosecution. In it, he confessed to having given orders for the gassing of millions of
victims. The affidavit, by the way, was in English, a language he did not speak or
understand, and was not translated to him.

We now know from the book "Legions of Death: The Nazi Enslavement of Europe" that
Rudolf Hoess was beaten almost to death by Jewish members of the British Field Police
Force upon capture and badly mistreated thereafter until he gave this very devastating
"testimony" and "affidavit" used by the Allies propagandists ever since. You be the judge.
Here is an excerpt from this book by Rupert Butler, published by Hamlyn Paperbacks, page 235:

At 5 PM on 11 March 1946, Frau H?ss opened her front door to six intelligence
specialists in British uniform, most of them tall and menacing and all of them
practiced in the more sophisticated techniques of sustained and merciless investigation.
No physical violence was used on the family: it was scarcely necessary. Wife and
children were separated and guarded. Clarke's tone was deliberately low-key and
conversational.

He began mildly: "I understand your husband came to see you as recently as last night."
Frau Hoess merely replied: "I haven't seen him since he absconded months ago"

Clarke tried once more, saying gently but with a tone of reproach: "You know that
isn't true." Then all at once his manner had changed and he was shouting: "If you
don't tell us, we'll turn you over to the Russians and they'll put you before a firing
squad. Your son will go to Siberia."It proved more than enough. Eventually, a broken Frau
H?ss betrayed the whereabouts of the former Auschwitz Kommandant, the man who now called
himself Franz Lang. Suitable intimidation of the son and daughter produced precisely
identical information.

When they found Hoess, here is how the capture played out. Clarke, one of the
participants, recalls it vividly:

"He was lying on top of a three-tier bunker wearing a new pair of silk pajamas. We
discovered later that he had lost the cyanide pill most of them carried. Not that he
would have had much chance to use it because we had rammed a torch (flashlight) into
his mouth." Hoess screamed in terror.

Clarke yelled: "What is your name?" With each answer of "Franz Lang," Clarke's hand
crashed into the face of the prisoner. The fourth time that happened, Hoess broke and
admitted who he was. The admission suddenly unleashed the loathing of the Jewish
sergeants in the arresting party whose parents had died in Auschwitz following an order
signed by Hoess.

The prisoner was torn from the top bunk, the pajama ripped from his body. He was then
dragged naked to one of the slaughter tables, where it seemed to Clarke the blows and
screams were endless.Eventually, the Medical Officer urged the Captain: "Call them off,
unless you want to take back a corpse."

A blanket was thrown over Hoess and he was dragged to Clarke's car, where the sergeant
poured a substantial slug of whiskey down his throat. Then Hoess tried to sleep.

Clarke thrust his service stick under the man's eyelids and ordered in German: "Keep your
pig eyes open, you swine." . . .

The party arrived back at Heide around three in the morning. The snow was swirling still,
but the blanket was torn from Hoess and he was made to walk completely nude through the
prison yard to his cell. It took three days to get a coherent statement out of him.

This statement, tortured and terrorized out of him, was the one we are all familiar
with--the "proof" for the so-called "gassing of millions of Jews."

Historians today are finally admitting that Hoess is a totally unreliable witness--and
is it any wonder? He spoke of a concentration camp "Wolzek" which does not even exist.
He swore that 2,500,000 people were gassed and burned at Auschwitz and a further half
million died of disease, for a total dead of three million. The Auschwitz Memorial Museum
itself puts the death toll at 1.5 million. It is very clear that Hoess only said what his
torturers wanted him to say when he signed a statement in a foreign language that he did
not understand. it is also known that these same tactics, and even more forms of mental
torture including mock hangings, were used the secure the "evidence" for the Malmedy trial
at Dachau.

A Lone Wolf Writing His Diabolical Story in Prison.......2004-12-12

This is an eerie book. I suppose I expected to find a monster leering at me from page one, but the book has more layers to the story than that. It was creepy to start off by feeling drawn into the story of his childhood.

I had a sense that Hoess enjoyed the process of writing. After everything he had perpetrated - after all the suffering he'd witnessed - to sit in a prison cell and write the story is a rather remarkable process, no matter how repugnant we may find it. Perhaps pride in his work was his motivator. (Merely being ordered to write it by the judges would not guarantee pleasure in the task.)

The author does not rant in the horrific yet charismatic manner of Hitler in the film clips of the rallies. A detached monster rather than a hot-blooded one, Hoess was an administrator at heart. Would he have conceived of mass extermination for the Jews of his own accord? Doubtful. But when given the task he was exceptionally good at it. He was even good at documenting it for the Allies.

This book tends to activate or deepen some of your biggest questions in life. While lucidly written, it's not an easy book to read emotionally. I gave this book five stars because everyone should read it and feel their own responses to it.

For the other side of the coin, read ELLI: COMING OF AGE IN THE HOLOCAUST.

Commandant Of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess

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Commandant Of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess

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An Interview with Rudolf Hoess' Mistress.......2006-10-15

After Dachau was liberated, Army intelligence interviewed a woman at the camp who claimed to have been Rudolf Hoess' mistress while at Auschwitz. What details they could check were confirmed, and her interview became part of a Seventh Army report issued a few weeks later, a report that has been republished as Dachau Liberated: The Official Report (ISBN: 1587420031). For those who want to understand the infamous Hoess, that interview of "E.H." provides a much-needed check on his obviously self-serving autobiography. Here's a short passage from her interview:

"According to my recollection, on December 16, 1942, about 11 p.m. I was already asleep, suddenly the C.O. appeared before me. I hadn't heard the opening of my cell and was such frightened. It was dark in the cell. I believed at first it was an SS man or a prisoner and said, "What is this tomfoolery, I forbid you." Then I heard "Pst," and a pocket lamp was lighted and lit the face of the C.O. I broke out "Herr Kommandant."

Hoess didn't mention this clandestine affair in his autobiography, but details she gave fit with his account and with conditions at Auschwitz.

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Commandant of Auschwitz The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
Rudolf Hoess
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An Interview with Rudolf Hoess' Mistress.......2006-10-15

After Dachau was liberated, Army intelligence interviewed a woman at the camp who claimed to have been Rudolf Hoess' mistress while at Auschwitz. What details they could check were confirmed, and her interview became part of a Seventh Army report issued a few weeks later, a report that has been republished as Dachau Liberated: The Official Report (ISBN: 1587420031). For those who want to understand the infamous Hoess, that interview of "E.H." provides a much-needed check on his obviously self-serving autobiography. Here's a short passage from her interview:

"According to my recollection, on December 16, 1942, about 11 p.m. I was already asleep, suddenly the C.O. appeared before me. I hadn't heard the opening of my cell and was such frightened. It was dark in the cell. I believed at first it was an SS man or a prisoner and said, "What is this tomfoolery, I forbid you." Then I heard "Pst," and a pocket lamp was lighted and lit the face of the C.O. I broke out "Herr Kommandant."

Hoess didn't mention this clandestine affair in his autobiography, but details she gave fit with his account and with conditions at Auschwitz.

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Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
Rudolf Hoess
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Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
Rudolf Hoess
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An Interview with Rudolf Hoess' Mistress.......2006-10-15

After Dachau was liberated, Army intelligence interviewed a woman at the camp who claimed to have been Rudolf Hoess' mistress while at Auschwitz. What details they could check were confirmed, and her interview became part of a Seventh Army report issued a few weeks later, a report that has been republished as Dachau Liberated: The Official Report (ISBN: 1587420031). For those who want to understand the infamous Hoess, that interview of "E.H." provides a much-needed check on his obviously self-serving autobiography. Here's a short passage from her interview:

"According to my recollection, on December 16, 1942, about 11 p.m. I was already asleep, suddenly the C.O. appeared before me. I hadn't heard the opening of my cell and was such frightened. It was dark in the cell. I believed at first it was an SS man or a prisoner and said, "What is this tomfoolery, I forbid you." Then I heard "Pst," and a pocket lamp was lighted and lit the face of the C.O. I broke out "Herr Kommandant."

Hoess didn't mention this clandestine affair in his autobiography, but details she gave fit with his account and with conditions at Auschwitz.

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Auschwitz! It's Origins and Development

Commandant of Auschwitz: The autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
Rudolf HoÌss
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An Interview with Rudolf Hoess' Mistress.......2006-10-15

After Dachau was liberated, Army intelligence interviewed a woman at the camp who claimed to have been Rudolf Hoess' mistress while at Auschwitz. What details they could check were confirmed, and her interview became part of a Seventh Army report issued a few weeks later, a report that has been republished as Dachau Liberated: The Official Report (ISBN: 1587420031). For those who want to understand the infamous Hoess, that interview of "E.H." provides a much-needed check on his obviously self-serving autobiography. Here's a short passage from her interview:

"According to my recollection, on December 16, 1942, about 11 p.m. I was already asleep, suddenly the C.O. appeared before me. I hadn't heard the opening of my cell and was such frightened. It was dark in the cell. I believed at first it was an SS man or a prisoner and said, "What is this tomfoolery, I forbid you." Then I heard "Pst," and a pocket lamp was lighted and lit the face of the C.O. I broke out "Herr Kommandant."

Hoess didn't mention this clandestine affair in his autobiography, but details she gave fit with his account and with conditions at Auschwitz.

UNRELIABLE TESTIMONY.......2006-04-29

Rudolf Hoess was the Allies' most important witness to the "Holocaust." His affidavit
and his testimony were quoted extensively both by the prosecution and in the judgment
of the IMT at Nuremberg, as well as by the press. Hoess's "confession" is heavily
relied upon by historians like Raul Hilberg and others as a primary documentary
source to this day.

It is true that Hoess witnessed at Nuremberg to horrendous "atrocities," and he also
confirmed the "truth" under oath of an affidavit which he agreed to sign for the
prosecution. In it, he confessed to having given orders for the gassing of millions of
victims. The affidavit, by the way, was in English, a language he did not speak or
understand, and was not translated to him.

We now know from the book "Legions of Death: The Nazi Enslavement of Europe" that
Rudolf Hoess was beaten almost to death by Jewish members of the British Field Police
Force upon capture and badly mistreated thereafter until he gave this very devastating
"testimony" and "affidavit" used by the Allies propagandists ever since. You be the judge.
Here is an excerpt from this book by Rupert Butler, published by Hamlyn Paperbacks, page 235:

At 5 PM on 11 March 1946, Frau Hoess opened her front door to six intelligence
specialists in British uniform, most of them tall and menacing and all of them
practiced in the more sophisticated techniques of sustained and merciless investigation.
No physical violence was used on the family: it was scarcely necessary. Wife and
children were separated and guarded. Clarke's tone was deliberately low-key and
conversational.

He began mildly: "I understand your husband came to see you as recently as last night."
Frau Hoess merely replied: "I haven't seen him since he absconded months ago"

Clarke tried once more, saying gently but with a tone of reproach: "You know that
isn't true." Then all at once his manner had changed and he was shouting: "If you
don't tell us, we'll turn you over to the Russians and they'll put you before a firing
squad. Your son will go to Siberia."It proved more than enough. Eventually, a broken Frau
Hoess betrayed the whereabouts of the former Auschwitz Kommandant, the man who now called
himself Franz Lang. Suitable intimidation of the son and daughter produced precisely
identical information.

When they found Hoess, here is how the capture played out. Clarke, one of the
participants, recalls it vividly:

"He was lying on top of a three-tier bunker wearing a new pair of silk pajamas. We
discovered later that he had lost the cyanide pill most of them carried. Not that he
would have had much chance to use it because we had rammed a torch (flashlight) into
his mouth." Hoess screamed in terror.

Clarke yelled: "What is your name?" With each answer of "Franz Lang," Clarke's hand
crashed into the face of the prisoner. The fourth time that happened, Hoess broke and
admitted who he was. The admission suddenly unleashed the loathing of the Jewish
sergeants in the arresting party whose parents had died in Auschwitz following an order
signed by Hoess.

The prisoner was torn from the top bunk, the pajama ripped from his body. He was then
dragged naked to one of the slaughter tables, where it seemed to Clarke the blows and
screams were endless.Eventually, the Medical Officer urged the Captain: "Call them off,
unless you want to take back a corpse."

A blanket was thrown over Hoess and he was dragged to Clarke's car, where the sergeant
poured a substantial slug of whiskey down his throat. Then Hoess tried to sleep.

Clarke thrust his service stick under the man's eyelids and ordered in German: "Keep your
pig eyes open, you swine." . . .

The party arrived back at Heide around three in the morning. The snow was swirling still,
but the blanket was torn from Hoess and he was made to walk completely nude through the
prison yard to his cell. It took three days to get a coherent statement out of him.

This statement, tortured and terrorized out of him, was the one we are all familiar
with--the "proof" for the so-called "gassing of millions of Jews."

Historians today are finally admitting that Hoess is a totally unreliable witness--and
is it any wonder? He spoke of a concentration camp "Wolzek" which does not even exist.
He swore that 2,500,000 people were gassed and burned at Auschwitz and a further half
million died of disease, for a total dead of three million. The Auschwitz Memorial Museum
itself puts the death toll at 1.5 million. It is very clear that Hoess only said what his
torturers wanted him to say when he signed a statement in a foreign language that he did
not understand. it is also known that these same tactics, and even more forms of mental
torture including mock hangings, were used the secure the "evidence" for the Malmedy trial
at Dachau.

Auschwitz! It's Origins and Development.......2005-07-01

Rudolf Hoess oversaw the construction and operations of Auschwitz for almost three years. This account, taken from a hand written text prepared while he awaited trial differs little from the one published in, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz. (Prometheus Books Buffalo, New York, 1992) A review of that work shown below. After this, my second reading of his memoirs, several thoughts come to mind:

Hoess joined the SS for the right reason: to do his patriotic duty.

Himmler himself involuntarily assigned him to concentration camp duty.

Refusing an order in combat is said to be a death sentence in all armies, including ours. In the SS, it was enforced.

Hoess himself said he was worthy of a death sentence. Was he?

A Baptist minister once said, "You folks think the Devil is gonna jump up outta the ground in a red suit and a pitchfork and say, "Hi! I'm the devil and I'm here to do a job on ya!" He's smarter than that!" The Nazi's presented themselves as good, God-fearing, patriotic citizens whose only goal was to restore their countries' lost honor. Only at the last did they show their true colors. Hoess, and millions of other Germans were victims of this, the greatest mass deception in history.

Review of Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz.

On April 16, 1947, Rudolf Hoess, the infamous Kommandant of Auschwitz was hanged in his former concentration camp for, "crimes against the Polish people." While awaiting trial, Hoess, who knew he would pay for his crimes with his life, sought to renew the spiritual connection he had eschewed as a youth. Accordingly, he recounted his time in the SS for his captors. His story is also that of the darkest side of the Third Reich.

The book begins with a discussion of the, "final solution," of the Jewish Question. He tells how he was ordered to establish a camp at Auschwitz for the purpose of eliminating, "enemies of the state." Details of camp construction and experiments to find the appropriate gas he describes without emotion. Yet he relates questions asked by young SS soldiers and inmates as to how small children could be an "enemy." His "party line" response fooled some, but never himself.

Hoess also describes the victims he tried to destroy. Jews had "strong family ties;" gypsies were, "childlike;" the Jehovah's Witnesses were worthy of emulation. The SS was challenged to have the same devotion to the Fuhrer as they had to Jehovah. In chapter 22 he describes the gassing process as only he could do. His primary concern was to dispatch his victims quickly and efficiently without displaying emotion that would affect young guards. Here, he admits, he hid behind an iron mask. Particularly interesting is the story of a young, extremely attractive, Jewish girl who fought back even as she was undressing for the gas chamber. Resistance was rare but in this case, effective, deadly effective!

The book describes his early life and the events that caused him and many others to blindly follow the SS motto: "Fuhrer, you order. We obey!" Hoess gives a detailed description of the hierarchy of the SS. Men, who had been portrayed as super-human, are shown to have been far short of that ideal. Alcoholism and suicide rates were high; competence was low! Still, operations continued despite all difficulties because, "Orders were orders!"

Death Dealer is a first person account of the operations of the most infamous death camp in history. After sending an estimated 2.5 million people to their deaths, the Kommandant, ended his life by doing one decent thing: he left his memoirs so no one could deny this ever happened. For that, the world owes Rudof Hoess, the Kommandant of Auschwitz, a debt of gratitude.

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Rudolf. Hoess
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Commandant of Auschwitz; the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. With an introd. by Lord Russell of Liverpool. Translated from the German by Constantine FitzGibbon

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Commandant of Auschwitz; the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. With an introd. by Lord Russell of Liverpool. Translated from the German by Constantine FitzGibbon
Rudolf (1900-1947) Hoss
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A Smashing Good Read!.......2000-04-20

I am completely biased - this book is by my dad - but I still think it is a jolly good read! Although it chronicles some of our life in the UK and USA, the author does a great job of explaining the many differences between the two countries. Even I learned a lot from it, and my mom and I were the ones who told dad to write it because we were exhausted by his story telling! This is truly a labor of love, and I'm very proud of both my dad's extraordinary life and the tenacity he showed during the writing and promotion of his book. Buy it now! (Kudos to mom for the fabulous cover illustration.)

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