Destination Buchenwald : the astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp

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Label

Destination Buchenwald : the astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp

Title remainder

the astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp

Statement of responsibility

Colin Burgess

Creator

• Burgess, Colin, 1947-

Author

• Burgess, Colin, 1947-

Subject

• Military history (Australia,New Zealand)
• Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Anecdotes
• Nazi concentration camps -- Germany
• World War II (Australia,New Zealand)
• Australian
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, New Zealand
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisons and prisoners, German
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
• Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Genre

• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

"The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city's infamous Fresnes Prison, they were about to face evacuation into the blackest, bloody heart of Germany and experience the most acute evil of the war. Amid great secrecy, those 168 airmen - including several from Australia and New Zealand - were transported on a filthy, overcrowded nightmare train journey which ended at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, accompanied by orders for their execution. At Buchenwald they witnessed extreme depravity that would haunt them to the end of their days. Yet, on returning home, they were confronted by decades of denials from their own governments that they had ever been held in one of Hitler's most vile concentration camps. In conducting his original deep research for this book - now completely expanded and updated - Colin Burgess personally interviewed or corresponded with dozens of the surviving airmen from a number of nations, including their valorous leader, New Zealand Squadron Leader Phil Lamason. Destination Buchenwald tells a compelling story of extraordinary bravery, comradeship and endurance, when a group of otherwise ordinary servicemen were thrust into an unimaginable Nazi hell." --Publisher website

Cataloging source

VHEI

Dewey number

940.547243

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult