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Compare And Contrast The Ebensee Concentration Camp And Dr. Nyiszli

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The Russians were near and Dr. Nyiszli began thinking positive saying, “A ray of hope began to grow inside me. Perhaps we would after all succeed in leaving here alive” (Nyiszli, 201). On January 17th Nyiszli’s dream was no longer a dream, it was reality. The SS troops escaped as soon as the Russians came. Dr. Nyiszli’s finally started feeling free. He survived freezing weather and denied working in Auschwitz when asked by a German officer. The Ebensee concentration camp was the fourth and last camp that Dr. Nyiszli was at. Nyiszli stayed there for a year with horrible experience and then he was finally completely

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