ABSTRACT
Bruno Bettelheim was imprisoned for almost a year at Dachau and Buchenwald in 1938-1939, and first came to prominence because of a 1943 article he wrote about the psychology of concentration camps. At the time the public was not yet aware of such atrocities, and Bettelheim pioneered in describing the horrendous impact of Nazi incarceration. He tried to explain why he had had the good luck to survive, as opposed to others who deteriorated.
