Auschwitz: A HistoryHarper Collins, 16 ago 2005 - 167 páginas At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend, and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to anyone on earth in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the Second World War. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand. |
Índice
The concentration camp | 22 |
Forced labour and extermination | 45 |
Auschwitz the model town | 62 |
The Final Solution of the Jewish | 79 |
The extermination centre | 96 |
The final phase | 116 |
The town and the camp after | 129 |
Auschwitz before the courts | 137 |
The Auschwitz lie | 153 |
Further reading | 160 |
Index of names | 166 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
administration arrived August Auschwitz authorities barracks became began Birkenau block brought building called centre civilian commandant concentration camp construction corpses court crematorium crimes criminals death December developed died district doctors early East Eastern economic experiments extermination factory Federal Final Solution first followed forced formed former four gas chamber German given grounds groups guards head Himmler Ho¨ss houses IG Farben immediately industrial inhabitants initially interest Italy Jewish Jews July killing labour later leader living managed March mass murder million Monowitz moved Nazi October office Old Reich operations organized Os´wiecim parent camp plans plant Poland Poles Polish political prisoners projects punishment racial regions Reich remained selection sentenced September settlement soon Soviet spring took town trains transports trial unit Upper Silesia victims women workers World zone