Uncensored English Translation of Nazi Leader's Confessions Now Available
An uncensored English translation of "Conversations with an Executioner," a book detailing the confessions of Nazi commander Jürgen Stroop, has been published by Steerforth, an imprint of Pushkin Press. The book was written by Kazimierz Moczarski, a Polish political prisoner and journalist who shared a cell with Stroop for 255 days in 1949. Stroop, responsible for the killing of over 50,000 Jews and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, provided unrepentant accounts of his actions and rise within the Nazi regime. Moczarski, a Polish resistance leader and veteran of the Warsaw Uprising, documented Stroop's testimony, offering a rare insight into the psychology of a Nazi war criminal. The book faced significant censorship in Communist Poland due to its portrayal of Moczarski's imprisonment and its divergence from official narratives of the Holocaust, only being fully published in Poland after the fall of Communism in 1992.