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People in Auschwitz is very different from other works on the most infamous of Nazi annihilation centers. Langbein’s account is a scrupulously scholarly achievement intertwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military personnel, and official documents. Whether his recounting deals with captors or inmates, Langbein analyzes the events and their context objectively, in an unemotional style, rendering a narrative that is unique in the history of the Holocaust. This monumental book helps us comprehend what has so tenaciously challenged understanding.
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Hermann Langbein (1912–1995) was born in Vienna. In 1938 he was a member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, then he was interned in various French camps. Following the German conquest, he was transferred to Dachau, then to Auschwitz, where he remained for two years. There he was a leading participant in the international resistance organization in the camp. After liberation he became general secretary of the International Auschwitz Committee and later secretary of the Comité International des Camps. Among the many important works he wrote or edited are Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938–1945 and Nazi Mass Murder: A Documentary History of the Use of Poison Gas. Harry Zohn (1923–2001) wrote, edited, or translated forty books, including a translation of Langbein’s Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938–1945.
