"Early in the morning of November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had not been felled by Jews, but rather by the ruthless architect of mass genocide, SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades"--Provided by publisher.
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call number/section: 940.53
subjects: sternbuch, recha, 1905-1971, himmler, heinrich, 1900-1945, auschwitz (concentration camp), holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), o?wi?cim, world war, 1939-1945, concentration. camps