The book explores the subject of preincarnation, in other words (for people who believe in reincarnation) who we may have been in a previous life. In Deja Death this phenomenon relates to a young church curate, a man called Richard Pope and his preincarnation character Irma Grese; she was a young woman that actually existed during World War 2 and who was convicted as a Nazi war criminal and became the youngest person to be executed during the 20th century. The book is a piece of fiction but also includes some historical facts about the holocaust and the death camps. It is therefore set in two different locations and eras, one being Nazi Germany and the concentration camps of the final solution, the other being more conventional times and set in New Milton, a fictitious village of Dorset in the United Kingdom.Richard Pope dies at the scene of a motorcycle accident and his spirit travels back in time and enters the psyche of Irma at the Auschwitz death-camp. But Richard is resuscitated by an ambulance crew and is taken to hospital badly injured and suffering from a cracked skull and allied brain injury. Because of this and after recovery, he occasionally suffers symptoms like those resembling an epileptic brain seizure, a trance with out-of-character and menacing side-effects; this is because when experiencing one or when asleep he co-exists as Irma Grese. After one such severe incident, a sermon outburst during Matins, he is banished from the church by his boss, the diocese bishop, and suspended from his clerical duties. The bishop insists that he undergoes a course of therapy with a psychiatrist, a man called Tony Ludlow, and gets cured of these psychotic episodes before he can resume his employment with the church.The book also explores elements of child abuse both Richard and Irma experienced while growing up. This subject is relevant to the author's personal upbringing and quite upsetting to read about; but it is a subject that needs broaching as it still goes on today and has a long-term effect on the victim's life-voyage and relationships.We follow Irma's journey, necessitated by the allied forces advance upon the east and west of Germany, from Auschwitz to Ravensbruck, eventually ending up at Bergen-Belsen where she is captured by the British army. It includes her affair with Josef Mengele and her love for another SS man called Franz Hatzinger. It further investigates many of the cruelties meted out to death-camp inmates by the bullying ranks of the SS; selections of those picked for elimination in the gas-chambers and ghastly medical experiments using prisoners as guinea pigs.The book describes a death-march from Ravensbruck to Bergen-Belsen and the exploits of a young gypsy lad called Vano who escapes from the exhausting trudge and is able, with the help of his friend Szymon, to rescue his sister from Ravensbruck.But in some ways, the whole purpose of the book was to reinvestigate the case of Irma Grese because she is universally condemned by authors and reporters alike. This idea was sparked when researching for an earlier book I was in the process of writing, when I discovered that Irma had saved at least one child from the gas-chambers at Auschwitz. There is no doubt that she was cruel to prison inmates but this would've been under orders and the intolerant duress of senior SS ranks. Further the book looks into her prosecution case and reaches some conclusions at odds with witness statements and the ultimate sentence to death.