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Narratives, novels, and poems about the world of the German concentration camps have proved far less popular in West Germany than exposures of the horrors of war on the Eastern front, or accounts of Soviet prisoners-of-war and forced-labor camps. During the early years of the Allied occupation, a few books about the concentration camps did indeed achieve a certain notoriety in Germany. Since 1948, however, the tide has turned. Even so noted an anti-Nazi publicist as Eugen Kogon, one-time camp inmate and author of Der S.S. Staat (“The SS State”), is reported to have stated that he would now hesitate to antagonize his readers by reprinting that brutal analysis of the concentration camp system without some cuts and qualifications.

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