Conversations with an Executioner
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1981). First edition in English. Black and white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 282 pages.
Moczarski was a journalist who had fought the Nazis with Polish Home Army, but became a political prisoner under Stalinism immediately after the war.
In 1949, as a means of psychological torture, Moczarski was put into a cell with two Nazi war criminals--one of whom was SS General Jürgen Stroop, who had been responsible for some 50,000 deaths in liquidating the Warsaw Ghetto.
Stroop was awaiting execution, yet the men shared their cell for 255 days. They had numerous conversations In this surreal prison setting, and Moczarski paints a devastating portrait of evil personified.
This is the first appearance of this remarkable document in English.
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