Auschwitz by Laurence Rees

Author:Laurence Rees [Laurence Rees]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2011-02-14T14:00:00+00:00

Although Groening does not exactly use the word “enjoyable” to describe his time at Auschwitz, it is hard to see how that is not an apt description of the life he paints.

Auschwitz main camp was like a small town. It had its gossip—it had a vegetable shop where you could buy bones to make broth. There was a canteen, a cinema, a theatre with regular performances. There was a sports club of which I was a member. There were dances—all fun and entertainment.

And then there was the other “positive” side of life at Auschwitz for Oskar Groening—his comrades: “I have to say that many who worked there weren’t dull, they were intelligent.” When he eventually left the camp in 1944, he went with some regrets:I’d left a circle of friends who I’d got familiar with, I’d got fond of, and that was very difficult. Apart from the fact that there are pigs who fulfil their personal drives—there are such people—the special situation at Auschwitz led to friendships which, I still say today, I think back on with joy.

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