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Eugen Kogon
German historian and Nazi concentration camp survivor
Eugen Kogon (2 February – 24 December ) was a German historian and Nazi concentration camp survivor.
A well-known Christian opponent of the Nazi Party, Kogon was arrested more than once and spent six years at Buchenwald concentration camp. Known in Germany as a journalist, sociologist, political scientist, author, and politician, he went on to be considered one of the "intellectual fathers" of both West Germany and European integration.
His book The Theory and Practice of Hell&#;[de] still stands as a basic reference on Nazi crimes.
This book deals with the biographies, scholarly oeuvres, and intellectual interests of men and women who were both professional historians and.Early years
Eugen Kogon was born in Munich, the son of an unmarried Russian-Jewish mother from Mykolaiv (a city then part of the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine). When he was 2 years old, she died and he was given foster parents and later attended a Catholic boarding school.[1][2] He spent the larger portion of his youth in Catholic monasteries.
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