Dachau

by Nerin E. Gun

Barcelona. 18 cm. 332 p., [32] p. de lám. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Historia y biografía', numero coleccion(255). Traducción The day of the Americans. Libro amigo (Editorial Bruguera). 255. Historia y biografía. Traducción del inglés M. Giménez Sales. Dachau (Alemania, Campo de concentración) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8402033571

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Nerin E. Gun, a free-lance journalist and writer, was born in Rome of Turkish and Italian parents. Educated in France and Germany, he entered the newspaper field in Berlin when WW II started, As a neutral, be became a correspondent for Swiss newspapers and the Turkish press service. For his reports to the world about the Warsaw ghetto and predictions of the defeat of the German armies in Russia, he was arrested by the Nazis and sent to eleven prisons and three concentrations camps, ending at Dachau. He was one of two foreign correspondents accredited to Berlin to have been arrested and put into a concentration camp solely because of journalistic activities.

Reviews

[Adriana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some takeaways:
1) contrary to the popular belief, when the Americans arrived to “liberate” the concentration camps, the nightmare didn’t end for the prisoners. The Americans took a very bureaucratic approach to reallocate people and took more than 8 months for people to live.
2) the vast majority of the prisoners died after the so-called liberation (300 per day?
3) the German habitantes of Dachau were guilty of the crimes. They were or cowards or too indifferent to speak up against the horrors. After the war they claimed ignorance but in the case of Dachau is not true. There are testimonies

Despite the author was a journalist (title of the book in English is “the day of the Americans” he doesn’t do a good job from the narrative perspective. It was hard to follow at times the anecdotes and timelines since he went back and forth sometimes in the same page.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book, very real and different aspects that I haven't really considered of WWII.
4.3/5