This book illustrates the person of Fritz Bracht - the most important Nazi dignitary in Upper Silesia during World War II. Bracht belonged to an elite group of officers whom Adolf Hitler entrusted with the administration of occupied Poland. However, unlike Hans Frank, Arthur Greiser, Albert Forster or Erich Koch, Bracht is an almost unknown figure. Historians have so far written comparatively little about him, although it was his district where the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was located.