Editing Viktor Frankl (section)

=== "Auschwitz survivor" testimony ===
In ''The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Reflection on the Odd Career of Viktor Frankl'', Professor of history Timothy Pytell of [[California State University, San Bernardino]], surveys the numerous discrepancies and omissions in Frankl's "Auschwitz survivor" account and later autobiography, which many of his contemporaries, such as [[Thomas Szasz]], similarly have raised.<ref name="szasz.com2">[http://www.szasz.com/exitana.html Szasz, T.S. (2003). The secular cure of souls: "Analysis" or dialogue? Existential Analysis, 14: 203–212 (July).]</ref>  In Frankl's ''Man's Search for Meaning'', the book devotes approximately half of its contents to describing Auschwitz and the psychology of its prisoners, suggesting a long stay at the [[death camp]]. However his wording is contradictory and, according to Pytell, "profoundly deceptive", as contrary to the impression Frankl gives of staying at Auschwitz for months, he was held close to the train, in the "depot prisoner" area of Auschwitz, and for no more than a few days. Frankl was neither registered at Auschwitz nor assigned a number there before being sent on to a [[List of subcamps of Dachau|subsidiary work camp of Dachau]], known as [[Kaufering concentration camp|Kaufering III]], that (together with Terezín) is the true setting of much of what is described in his book.<ref>[Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life By Timothy Pytell pg 104]</ref><ref name="portal.ehri-project.eu2">[https://portal.ehri-project.eu/units/il-002798-o_41-1248-1#desc-eng List of inmates who were transferred to Kaufering III camp, 11/07/1944-16/04/1945]</ref><ref>See Martin Weinmann, ed., Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem (Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 1990), pp.195, 558.</ref>