Deutsche als Opfer von Auschwitz
Germans as Victims in Auschwitz

Summary/Abstract: At Auschwitz, Germans were not only perpetrators, as public perception holds. A considerable part of the victims had German citizenship: Jews, Sinti, Roma, and “Aryans.” The article tries to give an estimate of the number of German victims of Auschwitz, analyzes the relatively privileged position German prisoners enjoyed there, the resulting conflicts along national cleavages, particularly between Germans and Poles, and finally, the fate of German prisoners towards the end of the war, on liberation and in its aftermath, when in many instances citizenship, not “race,” decided on the fate of a former German Auschwitz prisoner.

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