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Arthur Dodd, a British soldier, spent two years of the Second World war in a beautiful village in Upper Silesia, Poland; to the Poles the place was known as Oswiecim. The Germans called it Auschwitz. Auschwitz was not just a camp for those that the Third Reich deemed "undesirables", hundreds of British Tommies were also incarcerated there and witnessed the atrocities meted out by Hitler's brutal SS. This is the true story of one of these spectators.
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Arthur Dodd is a quiet man. Yet a man who has suffered appalling nightmares all his life and only now when he has been able to tell his story at last does he feel that he has fulfilled a promise, a promise made to a young Polish girl as tears streamed down her face after showing him the sickening sight of Jewish children being tossed alive onto a bonfire by SS guards The promise? - Go back. Tell them of all you have seen and witnessed here. Make sure it never happens again.
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Every so often two Jews came round pushing a high sided barrow. They picked up bodies and wheeled them to the crematorium. At the end of the day there wasn't a word spoken among us PoW's. All I could hear through the night was people crying. I cried a long time myself. A lot of the British committed suicide, one or two a week. They ran to the wire and were machine gunned. One night we heard the laughter and singing of children walking past. Trains were coming in day and night with about 5000 Jews on each but the track had been damaged by Russian bombs so they had to walk the last mile. They were Hungarians, all women and children, each carrying a bundle of belongings. The children were skipping, shouting and dancing while the women tried to smile for their sakes. In the morning we learned they had all been gassed in the night. One day a Ploich girl Arthur had got to know led him by the hand to the second floor of a building on the east of the camp. Through a! window, Arthur saw a bonfire in a shallow pit. Around it stood SS soldiers who were forcing Jewish teenagers to throw smaller children into the flames. He heard their screams then he saw the SS kicking the teenagers themselves into the fire. Arthur retreated, stunned and sickened to an air raid shelter.
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- PublisherSummersdale
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1840241438
- ISBN 13 9781840241433
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Soft Cover Full Gloss. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. ### Spectator In Hell 2001 A British Soldier's Story Of Imprisonment In Auschwitz ### ~#~ THIS BOOK: Classified as VERY GOOD. The book has some minor bumping and shelf marks, a few creases and edge marks on the front. However, the pages are still tight. The book may not have been read or read carefully without bending the book back. ## ### North Africa, 1942. Arthur Dodd is taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. At the time, he found no German resonance name for the place. They called it Auschwitz: a name now synonymous with man's darkest hour. # Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous German death camp of the Second World War, functioned for the incarceration and extermination of those that the Third Reich deemed 'undesirables': Jews, homosexuals, Communists. It is less known that it was the fate of hundreds of British POWs to find it their prison and to behold the atrocities meted out by Hitler's SS. This is the true story of one of those witnesses. ## Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting, he sabotaged Nazi industrial work, did all he could to help alleviate the suffering of the Jewish prisoners, and aided a partisan group planning a mass break-out. A prisoner, an escapee, a survivor; Arthur Dodd ? a spectator in Hell. ## #### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. Please get in touch with me for a shipping quotation. ####. No Author signature. Seller Inventory # MMNF-100-nonfict
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