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Author	Schlesak, Dieter, 1934-
Title	The druggist of Auschwitz : a documentary novel / Dieter Schlesak ; translated from the German by John Hargraves.
Publication Info.	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2011.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 6	F S	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st American ed.
Description	374 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-374).
Note	Originally published in German as: Capesius, der Auschwitzapotheker. Dietz, Germany: Verlag J.H.W., 2006.
Contents	The eyewitness -- The Auschwitz dispensary -- The German obsession with racial "purity" and the German language as a cure -- It was just love or order and sense of duty -- Love in the death camp -- My God, science! -- Mussulmen, the undead of Auschwitz, and suspension of time -- The Sonderkommando uprising -- The end -- The most significant figures -- List of military ranks during World War II.
Subject	Schlesak, Dieter, 1934- -- Translations into English.
	German fiction -- Translations into English.
	Capesius, Victor, 1907-1985 -- Fiction.
	Pharmacists -- Romania -- Fiction.
	Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
	Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Fiction.
	Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Fiction.
	Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Fiction.
Added Author	Hargraves, John, translator.
Added Title	Capesius, der Auschwitzapotheker. English
ISBN	9780374144067
	0374144060

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