Kogon

Kogon describes a similar situation the preceding winter when prisoners were forced to strip naked for a number of hours, a sight which attracted “the wife of Kommandant Koch, in company with the wives of four other SS officers,” who came “to the wire fence to gloat at the sight of the naked figures.”

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

In his book The Theory and Practice of Hell, the first comprehensive account of life in a Nazi concentration camp and in many ways still one of the most informative, Eugen Kogon, a conservative Austrian Catholic who was a political prisoner at Buchenwald from 1939 to 1945, describes the daily routine of the place.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

It was Rosenberg who chose the Buchenwald inmate Eugen Kogon to write the main overview of camp life that Kogon would later expand into The Theory and Practice of Hell.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

“Thousands of zebra-striped figures of misery, marching under the glare of the floodlights in the haze of dawn, column after column—no one who has ever witnessed it is likely to forget the sight,” writes Kogon, describing how the various categories of prisoners were denoted by color-coded SS-issued triangular patches sewn onto their clothing.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

Kogon, Northern Emperor (1332-5), Prince Kazuhito (q.v.), gives commission (1336) to the Ashikaga, and expects restoration to throne; becomes Zen priest

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

It involved the exclusion of Kogon from the roll of sovereigns, though the title of

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Go-Daigo had previously taken refuge at the Hiei-zan monastery, the ex-Emperors, Hanazono and Kogon, remaining in the capital where they looked for the restoration of their branch of the Imperial family.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Placing his son Motouji in charge at Kamakura, he returned to Kyoto accompanying the Emperor Go-Kogon, and thenceforth during nearly two years the supremacy of the North was practically undisputed.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Prince Yutahito (or Toyohito, according to gome authorities), younger brother of Kogon, to be proclaimed Emperor, and he is known as Komyo.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Komyo, Emperor (1336-48) of Northern dynasty, brother of Kogon; abdicates and becomes Zen priest

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886