Günther Schwarberg (14 October 1926 – 3 December 2008) was a

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whose 1979 series of articles in German

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and subsequent book ''The SS Doctor and the Children'' brought the

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-era war crimes committed in Neuengamme concentration camp and Bullenhuser Damm School in

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to the public's conscience in Germany, and the rest of the world. He worked at the in the beginning of his career then the in

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and worked at for twenty five years.David Bathrick, Brad Prager, Michael Richardson (1 June 2008). ''Visualizing the Holocaust: documents, aesthetics, memory''. Camden House.

Bibliography

* . Hamburg: Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg/Museumspädagogischer Dienst Hamburg, 1983. * ''The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm: The SS Doctor and the Children (English version) Göttingen, 1988 * (Attack on the Cap Arcona) (1998) * (The Jeweler of Majdanek) (1981) * (The Last Day of Oradour), Göttingen 1992 * (The Killers Laundry) Steidl (January 1990) * (My Twenty Children), Göttingen 1996 * (The Last Voyage of the Exodus), Göttingen 1988 * ''In the Ghetto of Warsaw'' (English) 2 March 2001 * (There Once Was a Magic Mountain) Steidl (January 2001) (English version) * (Summer with Bertolt Brecht) * (Fritz Löhner-Beda) Yours is My Heart (2000) * (I'll never forget), Göttingen 2007

As coauthor

* ''At Home and in the World'', Societe des Expositions du

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de Bruxelles (February 2, 2001)

Filmography

* Das Tribunal – Mord am Bullenhuser Damm

References

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