The seventh cross

Title
  1. The seventh cross [by] Anna Seghers; Tr. from the German by James A. Galston.
Published by
  1. Boston, Little, Brown, 1942.
Author
  1. Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983.

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Additional authors
  1. Galston, James A. (James Austin), 1881-1954
Description
  1. 338 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  1. Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist, Heisler, survives, not by cunning or superior skill, but through the complicity of a web of common citizens unwilling to bow to the Gestapo and forced to make decisions that will determine the character of their future lives.
Uniform title
  1. Siebte Kreuz. English
Alternative title
  1. Siebte Kreuz.
Subject
  1. 1933-1945
  2. Nazi concentration camp escapes > Fiction
  3. Nazi concentration camp inmates > Fiction
  4. World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Fiction
  5. Nazi concentration camp escapes
  6. Nazi concentration camp inmates
  7. German fiction > Translations into English
  8. National socialism > Fiction
  9. Nazi concentration camps > Fiction
  10. Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction
  11. Germany
Genre/Form
  1. novels.
  2. Novels
  3. Fiction
  4. History
  5. Fiction.
  6. Novels.
  7. German fiction.
  8. Romans.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Author's pseud., Anna Seghers, at head of title.