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Against all hope : resistance in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938-1945

In this major and comprehensive work, hailed by Le Monde as a "monumental study," Hermann Langbein shatters the myth that all prisoners of concentration camps during World War II passively let themselves be slaughtered. A prisoner himself and one of the leaders of resistance at Auschwitz, Langbein painstakingly documents the detailed account of the history of the camps and the story of resistance. Spanning the initial years to the chaotic weeks before liberation, Against All Hope is the first systematic presentation of organized resistance. Deeply moving, it is an unforgettable testament to the resilience and determination of the human spirit. As the camps were being established, Langbein examines the composition of the initial prisoners; a mixture of political prisoners (Reds), convicted criminals (Greens), Jews, and "anti-socials" and reveals the brutal struggle for camp domination between the Reds and Greens. With analytic detail, he presents the history and nature of the individual camps and the inmate self-government. In "The Actors," Langbein recognizes for the first time the various inmate groups, Germans, Austrians, Poles, Russians, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies and Jews, and how they related to resistance. Langbein portrays the incredible impossibility of resistance against the all-powerful total domination of the Nazi camp administration. The prisoners were to be morally broken, psychically disabled, and even physically destroyed. To resist against this systematic demoralization, its isolation from the rest of the world, and its intention to exterminate, was inconceivable. Through chronic malnutrition, beatings, torture, and the permanent terrorism of the SS, the prisoners were led to believe "there is only one way out of here: through the chimney." And yet, resistance, individual initiatives and organized action, to aid fellow inmates, to escape, to revolt, to thwart management campaigns, to mitigate the horrendous crimes were accomplished. In this historical documentary, with haunting accuracy, Langbein describes the acts of resistance and rebellion and the final phase of the camps, including death marches and liberation. Langbein explains that he wrote this "final study" so that the heroic resistance and the resilience of the human spirit would be recognized. He writes, "in all camps many people who were subject to boundless terror, with no hope of help from the outside, did try to resist and were not discouraged by repeated disappointments or incriminating decisions that such activities required. The fact that there was such resistance is convincing proof that while an inhumane regime can murder people, it cannot completely stamp out human impulses of the part of those allowed to live. This experience fills me with optimism."

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  • "Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern"
  • "... nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank"
  • "Nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank"

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  • "In this major and comprehensive work, hailed by Le Monde as a "monumental study," Hermann Langbein shatters the myth that all prisoners of concentration camps during World War II passively let themselves be slaughtered. A prisoner himself and one of the leaders of resistance at Auschwitz, Langbein painstakingly documents the detailed account of the history of the camps and the story of resistance. Spanning the initial years to the chaotic weeks before liberation, Against All Hope is the first systematic presentation of organized resistance. Deeply moving, it is an unforgettable testament to the resilience and determination of the human spirit. As the camps were being established, Langbein examines the composition of the initial prisoners; a mixture of political prisoners (Reds), convicted criminals (Greens), Jews, and "anti-socials" and reveals the brutal struggle for camp domination between the Reds and Greens. With analytic detail, he presents the history and nature of the individual camps and the inmate self-government. In "The Actors," Langbein recognizes for the first time the various inmate groups, Germans, Austrians, Poles, Russians, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies and Jews, and how they related to resistance. Langbein portrays the incredible impossibility of resistance against the all-powerful total domination of the Nazi camp administration. The prisoners were to be morally broken, psychically disabled, and even physically destroyed. To resist against this systematic demoralization, its isolation from the rest of the world, and its intention to exterminate, was inconceivable. Through chronic malnutrition, beatings, torture, and the permanent terrorism of the SS, the prisoners were led to believe "there is only one way out of here: through the chimney." And yet, resistance, individual initiatives and organized action, to aid fellow inmates, to escape, to revolt, to thwart management campaigns, to mitigate the horrendous crimes were accomplished. In this historical documentary, with haunting accuracy, Langbein describes the acts of resistance and rebellion and the final phase of the camps, including death marches and liberation. Langbein explains that he wrote this "final study" so that the heroic resistance and the resilience of the human spirit would be recognized. He writes, "in all camps many people who were subject to boundless terror, with no hope of help from the outside, did try to resist and were not discouraged by repeated disappointments or incriminating decisions that such activities required. The fact that there was such resistance is convincing proof that while an inhumane regime can murder people, it cannot completely stamp out human impulses of the part of those allowed to live. This experience fills me with optimism.""@en
  • "This detailed work explores the internal society of the Nazi concentration camps and the types of resistance which inmates brought to bear against their captors. The author, who participated in such resistance himself, deals with the conditions of the camps, as well as tension and cohesion between groups of prisoners. most of the research that went into the book is based on conversations with survivers."
  • "This detailed work explores the internal society of the Nazi concentration camps and the types of resistance which inmates brought to bear against their captors. The author, who participated in such resistance himself, deals with the conditions of the camps, as well as tension and cohesion between groups of prisoners. most of the research that went into the book is based on conversations with survivers."@en

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  • "...Nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "Against all hope : resistance in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938-1945"
  • "Against all hope : resistance in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938-1945"@en
  • "... nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938 - 1945"
  • "... nicht wie die Schäfe zur Schlachtbank : Wiederstand in der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "Against all hope : Resistance in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938-1945"
  • "...nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "Nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "... Nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzertrationslagern : 1938-1945"
  • "--nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern, 1938-1945"
  • "--nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "Against all hope : resistance in the Nazi concentration camps 1938-1945"
  • "Nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "--- nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "Against all hope : resistance in the Nazi concentration camps"@en
  • "... nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern, 1938-1945"
  • "... nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "Against all hope resistance in the Nazi concentration camps ; 1938 - 1945"
  • "... nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank : Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938-1945"
  • "Against all hope resistance in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938-1945"@en

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