Book #13734

In Der Stille

Carl Sudhoff

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Breslau [Wroclaw]: Ferdinand Hirt's Verlag, 1857.

Price: $40.00

Two inscriptions dated 1857 and 1866. Blue cloth cover with bright gold embossing and lettering. Spine is separated from book and has been repaired with clear tape. Small piece of cover at bottom of spine is missing. Some foxing of pages, bright gilded page edges; a sixteen-year-old boy is sent to a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. He is one of only a handful of survivors of his unit. After the war, he is determined to find out what really happened to his comrades.

In Der Stille, Carl, a 16-year-old boy is sent to a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. He is one of only a handful of survivors of his unit. After the war, he is determined to find out what really happened to his comrades. He interviews survivors and visits the locations where his unit was killed or imprisoned. His quest leads him to Austria, Germany, Poland, and Romania. Along the way, he unearths secrets and lies that keep his comrades' deaths hidden. In the end, Carl comes to understand the tragedy and horror of the Holocaust.; 8vo; FSA.