The author's primary purpose was in the excerpt was to discuss the terror that has to do with the concentration camps.
The phrase that can best tell the reader the purpose of the author is: "Those flames ... The smell of burning flesh".
The memoir genre was able to make the author achieve the purpose by telling about the issues and the terror felt in these places through the use of the words scream, flame etc.
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