The seventh cross [electronic resource] [by] Anna Seghers [pseud.] Tr. from the German by James A. Galston.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Boston, Little, Brown, 1942.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 338 p. 21 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Seventh cross.DDC classification:- 833.912
- PT2635.A27 S513 1942
- PZ3.R1196
- Also issued online.
Also issued online.
Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist, Heisler, survives, not by cunning or superior skill, but through the complicity of a web of common citizens unwilling to bow to the Gestapo and forced to make decisions that will determine the character of their future lives.
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