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The Nazi, the painter and the forgotten story of the SS road
- Title
- The Nazi, the painter and the forgotten story of the SS road / G.H. Bennett.
- Author
- Bennett, G. H. (George Henry), 1967-
- Publication
- London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- 240 p. : ill., map; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In 2006 in England a long-forgotten canister of film was discovered by chance in a Devonshire church. No one knew how it had got there, but its contents were tantalizing: grainy black-and-white scenes showed SS soldiers and slave labourers involved in what appeared to be a Nazi road-building programme. BBC television caused a sensation when it broadcast the footage, but the film gave few clues to the identities of the people in it, the places shown or the construction work's ambitious ultimate purpose. G.H. Bennett set out to uncover the story behind this compelling visual record, and to identify the perpetrators and victims it portrayed. He combed archives for clues in Britain, the USA, Germany and elsewhere, and began exploring likely settings for the film in Ukraine. Piece by piece Bennett put together the story of the SS Road, construction of which was managed by an unremarkable SS officer who, through a chance office mix-up of names, unexpectedly found himself in charge. He describes the Red Army prisoners, Jews and others who were worked to death building it, and singles out by name the barbaric overseers. Arnold Daghani, a Romanian artist, was one of the few Jewish labourers to survive the project. Recovering a neglected part of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust, The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road is a moving, at times horrifying, account of gratuitous cruelties imposed on ordinary people by a regime fixated on a nightmare future."--book jacket.
- Subject
- Daghani, Arnold, 1909-1985
- Jewish artists > Romania > Social conditions > 20th century
- Jews, Romanian > Ukraine > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Ukraine
- Forced labor > Ukraine > History > 20th century
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives, Romanian
- Roads > Ukraine > Design and construction > History > 20th century
- Ukraine > History > German occupation, 1941-1944
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-228) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : a puzzling reel of film -- Marching eastwards -- The Aryan imperial dream -- The master race in control -- Putting names to faces -- The fat man identified -- Durchgangstrasse IV : highway of the SS -- The film-makers -- The Romanian connection -- The end of the road -- The cry for justice -- Beyond earthly justice -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-3785
- ISBN
- 9781861899095 (hc.)
- 1861899092 (hc.)
- OCLC
- 760291969
- Author
- Bennett, G. H. (George Henry), 1967-
- Title
- The Nazi, the painter and the forgotten story of the SS road / G.H. Bennett.
- Imprint
- London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-228) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-3785