L'Univers concentrationnaire
L'Univers concentrationnaire is a work first published in 1946 by the French political activist, resistance fighter, journalist and writer David Rousset (1912–1997), which is considered an early fundamental work on the concentration camps of the Nazi regime . Rousset himself was deported to Buchenwald and was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp for years .
Eugen Kogon described this comprehensive presentation of the German concentration camp - Systems in 1946 as "the best non-German book on the KL".
In 1946 the author received the Prix Renaudot for the work .
Bibliographical information
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L'Univers concentrationnaire , éditions du Pavois, 1946 (German: The concentration camp universe . From the French by Olga Radetzkaja and Volker Weichsel. With an afterword by Jeremy Adler. Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020).
- A more recent edition was published by Fayard / Pluriel (2011) ( table of contents )
Web links
- “The Universe of the Concentration Camp” by David Rousset: Death was the company's goal , review by Nils Minkmar in Spiegel , January 25, 2020
- Crossed the threshold of the testimony. David Rousset's L'Univers concentrationnaire is finally available in German , review by Ahlrich Meyer , in: Sozial.Geschichte Online 27 (2020), pre-publication, pp. 1-10
References and footnotes
- ↑ Kogon, Eugen: Der SS-Staat . The system of the German concentration camps. Published by the Frankfurter Hefte publishing house. Berlin: Verlag des Druckhaus Tempelhof, 1947 (book series for everyone), p. 377.