In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army & transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name now synonymous with mankinds darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz. Forced to do hard labour starved & savagely beaten Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting he sabotaged Nazi industrial work risked his life to alleviate the suffering of the Jewish prisoners & aided a partisan group planning a mass break-out. This shocking story sheds new light on the operations at the camp exposes a hierarchy of prisoner treatment by the SS & presents the largely unknown story of military POWs held there.