Priestblock 25487 A Memoir of Dachau By Jean Bernard
In May 1941, Father Jean Bernard was arrested for denouncing the Nazis and sent to Dachau?s ?Priest Block,? a barracks that housed more than 3,000 clergymen (the vast majority Roman Catholic priests).Priestblock 25487 tells the gripping true story of his survival amid inhuman brutality, degradation and torture.
"Stunning... Casts light into dark and previously neglected corners of the horror that was the Third Reich." ?Richard John Neuhaus, Editor in Chief First Things
?Many hundreds of books have been written and published about German concentration and extermination camps during World War II, including at least two or three dozens written or dictated by their actual survivors. Of these, Father Jean Bernard?s Priestblock 25487 is among the very best, because of the exceptional intelligence and honesty of its author.Dachau, where he was imprisoned, was not the worst of all those camps, and Father Bernard was, surprisingly, released after two years of imprisonment: but perhaps because of these very circumstances his diary is extraordinarily telling, convincing, and graphic. Every scholar and student of that dreadful chapter of twentieth-century history ought to read ? and ponder ? its contents.? -John Lukacs,author Five Days in London:May 1940
Softcover. 177pp.
