In Russian. Short description: Vasily Petrenko. Before and after Auschwitz. Moscow, 2000. Dedicated to prisoners of Nazi death camps and soldiers-liberators. Retired lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Yakovlevich Petrenko talks about his life, the main episode of the front-line biography – the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. The author, a well-known military historian, reflects on the place of concentration camps in the Nazi practice of killing people, trying to answer the question why the Allied armies were not given a special task to liberate them. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS002096