Jochen August
Jochen August (born 1954 ) is a German Holocaust researcher and translator.
Life
Jochen August studied political science and Russian language and literature at the Free University of Berlin . From 1988 to 1992 he worked as a director of studies at the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim / Auschwitz . He researches the German occupation policy in Poland 1939–1945 and the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp . Together with Götz Aly and Jan Philipp Reemtsma , he published Die Auschwitz-Hefte as a translator and editor . In 1997 he published an anthology with contributions to the Krakow special campaign .
Fonts (selection)
- (Cooperation): Creating peace without weapons . Bornheim-Merten: Lamuv-Verlag, 1981 ISBN 978-3-921521-35-9
- (Mhrsg.): Herrenmensch and Arbeitsvölker: foreign workers and Germans 1939–1945 . Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag, 1986 ISBN 978-3-940529-73-2
- The Auschwitz booklets: Texts from the Polish magazine "Przegla̜d lekarski" on historical, psychological and medical aspects of life and death in Auschwitz . Edited by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. From the polish. trans. by Jochen August. Weinheim, Basel, 1987, ext. New edition Hamburg 1994
- Approaching Auschwitz: an attempt . Wiesbaden: Hessian State Center for Political Education, 1994
- (Ed.): "Sonderaktion Krakau": the arrest of the Krakow scientists on November 6, 1939 . Introduction, short biographies and translation of the documents from the Polish Jochen August. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 1997 ISBN 978-3-930908-28-8
- Danuta Wesołowska: Words from Hell: the "lagerszpracha" of Auschwitz prisoners . Translation from the Polish Jochen August. Kraków: Impuls, 1998 ISBN 978-83-86994-89-2
- Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1941–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. (Vol. 1 to 3) From the Polish by Jochen August. Oswiecim, Publishing House of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Jochen August in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jochen August in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Jochen August , at: Hamburger Edition
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| SURNAME | August, Jochen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Holocaust researcher and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |