Witness to Barbarism

Hansen, Horace R.

ISBN 10: 0972084908 / ISBN 13: 9780972084901

Published by Thousand Pinetree Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Witness to Barbarism
• Publisher: Thousand Pinetree Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972084908
• ISBN 13: 9780972084901
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Horace R. Hansen writes his firsthand experiences during and after World War II. He serves in the army as lieutenant in a U.S. replacement troop traveling across Germany. At the end of the war, he is assigned to the Third Army, Judge Advocate General Department, as chief prosecutor during the Nazi war crimes trials at the Dachau Concentration Camp. Hansen used his legal expertise to present this firsthand view of his experience of crimes against Jews, gypsies, political and military prisoners, and others that did no fit the Nazi idea of a master race.

On his staff at Dachau are five of Hitler's military-situation conference stenographers, or recorders, who tell Hansen how Hitler made his wartime decisions. These recorders gave Hansen background on Hitler that hasn't been published until now.

Primary sources for this book include his interviews with Hitler's recorders and his frequent letters home during the war, as well as personal photographs taken as he moved through Europe with U.S. troops during World War II.

Witness to Barbarism is a unique and powerful story including eyewitness material on Hitler and his obsession, written in the hope that what happened then will never happen again.

About the Author

Horace R. Hansen (1910-1995) had a long and distinguished legal career as an attorney in private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota, for over fifty years. Throughout his career he concentrated on advancing the cause of justice by seeking to better the lot of the common man, favoring the side of David against Goliath.

Hansen was a man of vision with an acute sense of history. While serving as an army officer in Europe during World War II, he wrote long letters to friends about people whose lives were disrupted by the war and his personal experiences. Following the war, Horace serviced as a prosecutor at the Dachau war trials. In his later years, he prepared a manuscript for publication detailing his personal experiences, including interviews of personal recorders to Adolf Hitler.