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The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler betraying his country his friends and everything he believed in
He refused
Poland 1939 Professional photographer Wilhelm Brasse is deported to AuschwitzBirkenau and finds himself in a deadly race to survive assigned to work as the camps intake photographer and take identity pictures of prisoners as they arrive by the trainload Brasse soon discovers his photography skills are in demand from Nazi guards as well who ask him to take personal portraits for them to send to their families and girlfriends Behind the camera Brasse is safe from the terrible fate that so many of his fellow prisoners meet But over the course of five years the horrifying scenes his lens capture including inhumane medical experiments led by Josef Mengele change Brasse forever
Based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse The Auschwitz Photographer is a stark blackandwhite reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust This gripping work of World War II narrative nonfiction takes readers behind the barbed wire fences of the worlds most feared concentration camp bringing Brasses story to life as he clicks the shutter button thousands of times before ultimately joining the Resistance defying the Nazis and defiantly setting down his camera for good
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