ABSTRACT
The camps are viewed in the context of Nazi extermination policy in the General Government of Poland. Inmate life in the camps, escape attempts, and the heroic revolts in Sobibor and Treblinka round out this important work of scholarship. The pamphlet has special importance in countering revisionist denials of the Holocaust; the Washington lawmakers reported what they saw objectively, concluding that the Nazi camps were a form of "organized crime against civilization and humanity". The photographs, which were taken by Allied soldiers who liberated the camps, are followed by a short description. Deals primarily with the treatment of Jews in both the Auschwitz main camp and its subcamp, Birkenau, which was the main extermination site. Centers on Siegfried Lederer who not only got out of Auschwitz, with the assistance of the camp's underground and an SS accomplice, but who also smuggled out a detailed report on the camp that was eventually delivered to the Allies.
