By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close
in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and
discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to
be reached intact was Buchenwald, in central Germany. American
soldiers struggled to make sense of the shocking scenes they
witnessed inside. They asked a small group of former inmates to
draft a report on the camp. It was led by Eugen Kogon, a German
political prisoner who had been an inmate since 1939. "The Theory
and Practice of Hell" is his classic account of life inside.
Unlike many other books by survivors who published immediately
after the war, "The Theory and Practice of Hell" is more than a
personal account. It is a horrific examination of life and death
inside a Nazi concentration camp, a brutal world of a state within
state, and a society without law. But Kogon maintains a
dispassionate and critical perspective. He tries to understand how
the camp works, to uncover its structure and social organization.
He knew that the book would shock some readers and provide others
with gruesome fascination. But he firmly believed that he had to
show the camp in honest, unflinching detail.
The result is a unique historical document--a complete picture of
the society, morality, and politics that fueled the systematic
torture of six million human beings. For many years, "The Theory
and Practice of Hell" remained the seminal work on the
concentration camps, particularly in Germany. Reissued with an
introduction by Nikolaus Waschmann, a leading Holocaust scholar and
author of Hilter's Prisons, this important work now demands to be
re-read.
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