Concentration Camp Literature
Concentration camp literature includes all those experience reports , reports , correspondence , autobiographies , prose and poetry that were created during or as a result of imprisonment in the concentration camps of the National Socialist tyranny. It is part of the prisoner's literature , but not congruent with the Holocaust literature , because not all concentration camps were extermination camps. Fictitious texts which thematically deal with imprisonment in concentration camps are only included if the author was actually affected.
Counted among the first and now more well-known works of concentration camp literature
- Nico Rost : Brief uit een concentratiekamp . In: Left Judging . No. 8, May 1, 1933 (Dutch magazine)
- Hans Beimler : In the Dachau murder camp . Moscow, August 1933. 69 pp. Also in English.
- Gerhart Seger : Oranienburg . Carlsbad 1934.
- Willi Bredel : The exam . 1934.
- Wolfgang Langhoff : The moor soldiers. 13 months concentration camp . Zurich 1935. Munich 1946.
- Paul Massing , adN Karl Billinger: Protective prisoner 880 . Paris 1935.
- Julius Zerfass , and N. W. Hornung: Dachau. A chronicle . 1936
- Karl August Wittfogel , adN Klaus Hinrichs: State Concentration Camp VII . Malik, London 1936
- Ernst Wiechert : The Dead Forest. A report . Zurich 1946. Written in 1939.
- Eugen Kogon : The SS state . Munich 1946.
- Erwin Gostner: A thousand days in a concentration camp . Innsbruck n.d. [1945/46].
- Nico Rost : Goethe in Dachau . 1946 (in Dutch). Munich undated [1948].
- Zenon Rozanski: Hats off ... A report from the Auschwitz concentration camp penal company . Hanover 1948.
- Hermann Langbein : The stronger ones . 1949.
- Carl Laszlo : Holidays at the forest lake . 1956
- Bruno Apitz : Naked among wolves . 1958.
- Primo Levi : is that a human? 1958.
- Jorge Semprún : The Great Journey [Paris 1963]. 1964
- Peter Weiss : The investigation . 1965.
- Ana Novac : The beautiful days of my youth [1966 in Hungary]. 1967. New version translated by Eva Moldenhauer , Frankfurt a. M. 2009
- Imre Kertész : A Fateless Novel [1975 in Hungary].
- Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz . 1980
- Fania Fénelon : The Girls Orchestra in Auschwitz 1981
- Jerzy Bielecki : Who saves a life [1990 in Poland]. 2009
- Ruth Klüger : keep living. A youth . Goettingen 1992
- Stanislav Zámečník : (Ed. Comité International de Dachau ): That was Dachau. 2002.