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The historian Charles Sydnor has added a list of recommended sources for Auschwitz to his article about the camp in the USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos (volume 1, part A; for the sources, pp. 207–208). Download. Posting it here in case it's helpful. SarahSV ^(talk)

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Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, eds., Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (New York: Norton, 1996).
Jean-Claude Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, trans. Peter Moss (New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989).
Robert Jan van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the David Irving Trial (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).
Sybille Steinbacher, Auschwitz: A History, trans. Shaun Whiteside (New York: ECCO, 2005).
Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle 1939–1945 (New York: H. Holt, 1995).
Jonathan Webber and Connie Wilsack, Auschwitz: A History in Photographs, compiled originally by Teresa Swiebocka (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).
Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981).
Wacław Długoborski and Franciszek Piper, Auschwitz 1940–1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camps, five volumes (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2000).
Peter F. Hayes, Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Josef Buszko, Auschwitz: Nazi Extermination Camp, 2nd ed. (Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1985).
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, 3rd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
For the Auschwitz garrison orders: Norbert Frei et al., Standort- und Kommandanturbefehle des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz 1940–1945, vol. 1 of Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte von Auschwitz (Munich: K.G. Saur, 2000).

Personal accounts

Rudolf Höss, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, ed. Steven Paskuly and trans. Andrew Pollinger (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992).
Rudolf Vrba and Alan Bestic, I Cannot Forgive (New York: Bantam, 1964).
Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Summit Books, 1988).
Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz, trans. Harry Zohn (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2004).
Filip Müller with Helmut Freitag, Auschwitz Inferno: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando, ed. and trans. Susanne Flatauer (London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1979).
Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Krystyn Olszewski, and Tadeusz Borowski, We Were in Auschwitz, trans. Alicia Nitecki (1946; repr., New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2000).

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IG Farben (BASF/Bayer/Hoechst) in Auschwitz

The chemical firm BASF controlled the concentration camp IG Auschwitz ... IG Auschwitz is a chemical factory, 3km x 8km tall, built by BASF(IG Farben)

The BASF leaded the chemical part of the IG Farben ... Here are some BASF-Managers, who were involved in Auschwitz and the holocaust ...

Carl Wurster leaded the zyklon b production at Degesch... he was in Auschwitz ... after world war 2 carl wurster became CEO at BASF ...

Heinrich Buetefisch was a manager at basf ... in the year 1920 heinrich buetefisch started at BASF and in the year 1925 he became an section leader at BASF ... He leaded the fuel production at the IG Farben factory in Auschwitz ...

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+== IG Farben (BASF/Bayer/Hoechst) in Auschwitz  ==
+The chemical firm BASF controlled the concentration camp IG Auschwitz ... IG Auschwitz is a chemical factory, 3km x 8km tall, built by BASF(IG Farben)
+The BASF leaded the chemical part of the IG Farben ... Here are some BASF-Managers, who were involved in Auschwitz and the holocaust ...
+[[Carl Wurster]] leaded the zyklon b  production at [[Degesch]]... he was in Auschwitz ... after world war 2 carl wurster became CEO at [[BASF]] ...
+[[Heinrich Buetefisch]] was a manager at basf ... in the year 1920 heinrich buetefisch started at BASF and in the year 1925 he became an section leader at BASF ... He leaded the fuel production at the IG Farben factory in Auschwitz ...