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  <name><![CDATA[Pierre Berg]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[In 1947, at my first job in California, a coworker inquired about the tattoo on my left arm.  

&quot;It was my license plate in a Nazi concentration camp.  I lost half of my weight there.  From 145 lbs to 72 lbs.&quot;

&quot;We had a rough time, too, here in the U.S.  She said.  We had to eat chicken all the time.&quot;

Thinking that someday I might forget what I went through in those 18 months, I wrote down my odyssey.  I was twenty-one years old.  Those recollections sat in a drawer for over fifty years.  

The title of my memoir is Scheisshaus Luck because it was shithouse luck that I survived.

I escaped a selection to Birkenau's gas chambers because I did a good job washing my blockelster's shirts.  

I fell asleep in a warehouse and was written up for an escape attempt, but because the man who tattooed me had a shaking hand, they mistook the 9 for a 3 and another poor soul was hung in my place.  

I turned 19 in Auschwitz.  I carried the body of a Jehovah Witness out of the camp's brothel.  She had committed suicide because she couldn't be anyone's whore. 

I helped deliver the ashes of 900 human beings to women toiling in a cabbage patch.  From the looks of the heads of cabbage we made good fertilizer. 

I barely survived the death march out of Auschwitz, then found myself working on circuit boards for the V2 rockets in Dora.  When I could, I gave those boards hell.

I fell in love with a girl in the Paris camp of Drancy before we were shipped to Pitchi Poi.  In Auschwitz I dreamed of reuniting with her, but I had no fairy tale ending.

I am a gentile. I want the skinheads, the neo-Nazis, the Holocaust deniers to come to me and say that the Holocaust is just Jewish propaganda.  I want to help put a cork in the bile they spew.
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  <title><![CDATA[Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Berg]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Berg]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.61</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>23</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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