Death is my trade

death is my trade is a fictionalized Biographie of Rudolf Höß (famous Rudolf Lang in the work), written by Robert Merle (France) and published in 1952.

Rudolf Höß was the director of the Concentration camp and extermination of Auschwitz during the Second world war.

Summary

The history starts in 1913, Rudolf Lang is then 13 years old. It is high under a very catholic and normative education. His/her father, with which his reports/ratios is tended, wants that it becomes cleaned. At fifteen years and eight month, Lang begins its military career which carries out it in 1943 to Auschwitz where he is the director. This camp, initially of concentration, then of extermination, becomes the place of the slow one and groping developed of the Factory of Dead of the village of Auschwitz. Lang will attempt to it to achieve the mission which was assigned to him: to kill the greatest number of Jews and to eliminate from them most effectively possible the corpses.

sources drawn from the foreword of the book written by the author

The work of the author

Robert Merle was based on direct testimonys of Rudolf Höss, written in prison following his lawsuit, like on the reports of the Procès of Nuremberg.

All that Rudolf did, it did it not by spite, but in the name of the categorical imperative, by fidelity with the chief, tender with the order, respect for the State. In short, in man of conscience : and it is in that precisely that it is monstrous. (Robert Blackbird, April 27th, 1972)

In his work, Robert Merle has famous Rudolf Höß in Rudolf Lang , which was the name of loan of this one after its demobilization S.
Adolf Eichmann was also famous in Wulfslang, but it preserves its rank of Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant-colonel).

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