Agony of Survival is a 1945 chronicle of a young lieutenant in the United States Army in postwar Germany. Caught in an emotional maelstrom of half-starved emaciated survivors of the concentration camps, he was charged with the responsibility for the care and repatriation of displaced persons in his area.
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"Written with warmth and feeling this book brings back vividly and realistically the historic era of rescue and rehabilitation during the end of World War II in Germany and immediately afterward . . . ." -- Dr. JudahNadich, Rabbi Emmeritus, Park Avenue Synagogue, New York City and form er Advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was struck with awe and admiration when reading Agony of Survival. Though volumes, millions of words have been written about the Holocaust and the dreadful aftermath, this book will trouble the sleep of generations to come. . . . -- Abraham Nasatir, Emeritus Professor of History, San Diego State University, Fulbright Professor
Written with warmth and feeling this book brings back vividly and realistically the historic era of rescue and rehabilitation during the end of World War II in Germany and immediately afterward. . . . Books such as this are of signal importance today since the statements of the many eye-witnesses to the evil they saw and experienced demolish the baseless arguments of the revisionists of the history of that dark period. -- Dr. Judah Nadich, Rabbi Emeritus, Park Avenue Synagogue, New York City and former Advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was struck with awe and admiration when reading Agony of Survival. Though volumes, millions of words have been written about the Holocaust and the dreadful aftermath, this book will trouble the sleep of generations to come. . . . -- Abraham Nasatir, Emeritus Professor of History, San Diego State University, Fulbright Professor
Written with warmth and feeling this book brings back vividly and realistically the historic era of rescue and rehabilitation during the end of World War II in Germany and immediately afterward. . . . Books such as this are of signal importance today since the statements of the many eye-witnesses to the evil they saw and experienced demolish the baseless arguments of the revisionists of the history of that dark period. -- Dr. Judah Nadich, Rabbi Emeritus, Park Avenue Synagogue, New York City and former Advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Agony of Survival is a 1945 chronicle of a young lieutenant in the United States Army in postwar Germany. Caught in an emotional maelstrom of half-starved emaciated survivors of the concentration camps, he was charged with the responsibility for the care and repatriation of displaced persons in his area. The governments of the United States, Britain, and France helped but not always enthusiastically. The Jewish survivors of the concentration camps had also to survive the continuing anti-Semitism of some of the allied officers and enlisted men as well as other displaced persons. The world had changed but not the old attitudes and prejudices. Following V-E Day and knowing little about the horrors of the Holocaust, newly arrived officials replaced veterans of the war. Hutler faced both the disinterest and insensitivity of some of those officials but was remarkably successful as a conciliator, later earning the appreciation of General Eisenhower and Dean Earl Harrison, President Truman's investigative deputy.
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