The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an Ss Physician

Fifty years after WWII, Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Mnnch, a former Nazi and head of the Waffen SS Hygiene Institute, talk face to face, in an interview that grew out of a documentary film by Bernhard Frankfurter. The dramatic structure of the discussion follows events of the Nazi occupation chronologically. Frankfurter was an international film director. Cernyak-Spatz is professor emerita of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. First published in German in 1995 as Die Begegnung: Auschwitz-Ein Opfer und ein TSter im GesprSch by Verlag fnr Gesellschaftskritik. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Bernhard Frankfurter was an international film director whose documentary film credits include
Capitalism in Thirds (1975), On the Road fo Hollywood (1982), SS Nr . .. . Terminal Auschwitz (1984), and Love Life-Live Death (1989). Before his death in 1999, he was also active as an editor, columnist, and scriptwriter, and he founded the Eastern-Western Media Network in 1994.

Susan E. Cernyak-Spatz is professor emerita of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including German Holocaust Literature and Hitler's Gift to the Jews: Translation of Norbert Troller Diaries.