The East German edition of a volume describing the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp by two former inmates has been confiscated by the authorities, it was reported here today.
According to the dispatch the books were ordered seized because a foreword by Hermann Langbein, head of a group of Auschwitz surveyors, made reference to the existence of concentration camps today in “certain countries.” The book, “The Death Factory, ” was written by Ota Kraus and Erich Kilka and published originally in Czechoslovakia.
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