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As news of the Allied forces’ arrival spread through the Buchenwald concentration camp, despair among the Polish prisoners gave way to a strange and powerful sense of hope. When t…
As news of the Allied forces’ arrival spread through the Buchenwald concentration camp, despair among the Polish prisoners gave way to a strange and powerful sense of hope. When they were transferred from Auschwitz, a three-year-old child somehow arrived hidden inside a suitcase; the child was Jewish and would inevitably have been killed if discovered. In this situation, a group of Communist prisoners decided to protect the child from the Nazis, and although they could not smuggle the child out of Buchenwald, they managed to keep him hidden. Despite threats and brutal torture by the SS, they risked their lives to save the child, who gradually came to symbolize resistance and the will to fight.
As a German Communist, Bruno Apitz had been persecuted by the Nazis since 1933. He spent more than seven years as a political prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp, and he recorded these experiences in his novels. Naked Among the Wolves is one of his most well-known works.
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