During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner
in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his
survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners
who were willing to go into exile and to the help of friends on the
outside who helped him obtain a visa. He fled to Sweden before
coming to the United States in 1941. In 1943, he completed The The
Society of Terror, based on his experiences in Dachau and
Buchenwald. He embarked on a long career teaching sociology and
statistics at universities in the United States and later in Vienna
until his death in September 2001.After liberation, the horrific
images of the extermination camps abounded from Dachau, Buchenwald,
and other places. Neurath's chillingly factual discussion of his
experience as an inmate and his astute observations of the
conditions and the social structures in Dachau and Buchenwald
captivate the reader, not only because of their authenticity, but
also because of the work's proximity to the events and the absence
of influence of later interpretations. His account is unique also
because of the exceptional links Neurath establishes between
personal experience and theoretical reflection, the persistent
oscillation between the distanced and sober view of the scientist
and that of the prisoner.
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