Post by connie on Jul 14, 2014 11:20:29 GMT -5
Soldiers and Slaves by Roger Cohen
This is the companion book to the documentary: Berga: Soldiers of another War : 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4746/thread
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW: www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/arts/15iht-booklun.html?_r=0
This whole review is worth reading if you're interested in the book, but here's one interesting quote from that review that gives one vital 106th link to the reconstruction of this story:
Cohen, the international writer at large and a former foreign editor for The New York Times who writes the Globalist column for the International Herald Tribune, dedicates the book to the memory of Charles Guggenheim, a soft-spoken and elegant man who was an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Guggenheim spent the last years of his life researching and recording the fate that might have been his had he shipped out with his outfit, the 106th infantry regiment, to Europe. Instead, a foot infection kept him home.
AMAZON: kindle, audiobook, and paperbacks available; also view portions of book or listen to a segment of the audio book
www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Slaves-American-Trapped-Gamble/dp/0385722311
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this horrific treatment.
This is one of the last untold stories of World War II, and Roger Cohen re-creates it in all its blistering detail. Ground down by the crumbling Nazi war machine, the men prayed for salvation from the Allied troops, yet even after their liberation, their story was nearly forgotten. There was no aggressive prosecution of the commandants of the camp and the POWs received no particular recognition for their sacrifices. Cohen tells their story at last, in a stirring tale of bravery and depredation that is essential for any reader of World War II history.
WIKIPEDIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_and_Slaves
Review here from Publishers Weekly stated that "Cohen's level of detail... makes this journalistic history come alive." Author Elie Wiesel stated that "Cohen is to be thanked for revealing to the public its profound human drama with talent, sensitivity, and a commitment to truth."
ACCOUNT OF A 106TH SOLDIER: who, along with 350 POW's was shipped from Bad Orb to Berga on Feb8, 1944 (and who in late March was sent from there on a death march, see the link to Winfield Rosenberg's story: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/968/rosenberg-winfield-422-pow
This is the companion book to the documentary: Berga: Soldiers of another War : 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4746/thread
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW: www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/arts/15iht-booklun.html?_r=0
This whole review is worth reading if you're interested in the book, but here's one interesting quote from that review that gives one vital 106th link to the reconstruction of this story:
Cohen, the international writer at large and a former foreign editor for The New York Times who writes the Globalist column for the International Herald Tribune, dedicates the book to the memory of Charles Guggenheim, a soft-spoken and elegant man who was an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Guggenheim spent the last years of his life researching and recording the fate that might have been his had he shipped out with his outfit, the 106th infantry regiment, to Europe. Instead, a foot infection kept him home.
AMAZON: kindle, audiobook, and paperbacks available; also view portions of book or listen to a segment of the audio book
www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Slaves-American-Trapped-Gamble/dp/0385722311
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this horrific treatment.
This is one of the last untold stories of World War II, and Roger Cohen re-creates it in all its blistering detail. Ground down by the crumbling Nazi war machine, the men prayed for salvation from the Allied troops, yet even after their liberation, their story was nearly forgotten. There was no aggressive prosecution of the commandants of the camp and the POWs received no particular recognition for their sacrifices. Cohen tells their story at last, in a stirring tale of bravery and depredation that is essential for any reader of World War II history.
WIKIPEDIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_and_Slaves
Review here from Publishers Weekly stated that "Cohen's level of detail... makes this journalistic history come alive." Author Elie Wiesel stated that "Cohen is to be thanked for revealing to the public its profound human drama with talent, sensitivity, and a commitment to truth."
ACCOUNT OF A 106TH SOLDIER: who, along with 350 POW's was shipped from Bad Orb to Berga on Feb8, 1944 (and who in late March was sent from there on a death march, see the link to Winfield Rosenberg's story: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/968/rosenberg-winfield-422-pow