{"product_id":"the-auschwitz-photographer-luca-crippa-9780857527462","title":"The Auschwitz Photographer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary true story of Wilhelm Brasse, the Auschwitz prisoner whose photographs exposed the atrocities of the Holocaust and then helped to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse\n\u003cbr\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear  allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was  ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the camp. He began by taking identification photographs of the prisoners as they entered the camp, went on to capture the  criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele, and also recorded executions. Between 1940 and 1945,  Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the horror around him. He took them because he had no  choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEventually, Brasse's conscience wouldn't allow him to hide behind his camera. First he risked his life by joining the  camp's Resistance movement, faking documents for prisoners, trying to smuggle images to the outside world to reveal what was happening. Then, when Soviet troops finally advanced on the camp  to liberate it, Brasse refused SS orders to destroy his photographs. 'Because the world must know,' he said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz, this extraordinary true story of horror, hope and courage lies at the very heart of the Holocaust.\n\u003cbr\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Brasse has left us with a powerful legacy in images. Because of them we can see the victims of the Holocaust as human and not statistics.' Fergal Keane\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luca Crippa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43175833338099,"sku":"9780857527462","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780857527462.jpg?v=1662078342","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-auschwitz-photographer-luca-crippa-9780857527462","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}