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This volume contains contributions on selected aspects of camp
policy in the 'Third Reich'. Aided by the opening of Eastern
European archives, new questions and research perspectives have
been presented, ranging from the structure of the 'society of
prisoners' and the conditions of the policy of systematic
extermination in the occupied East to the awareness of these crimes
within the German society.
This volume deals in an exemplary manner with the involvement of
private German enterprises in the National Socialist policy of
extermination. It focuses primarily on the activities of the
company "IG Farben" in the neighbourhood of Auschwitz and on the
concentration camp Monowitz, built in co-operation with the SS. It
investigates not only the motives of the "IG Farben" managers and
the alternatives open to them, but also the 'everyday life' of
prisoners used forced labour -- more than 25,000 of whom died.
This volume documents the internal orders given by SS camp
commanders to the guards of Auschwitz. Issued as hectographs, very
few orders survived, scattered through German, Polish and Russian
archives and have been largely disregarded by researchers until
now. However, the sheer abundance of detail they offer renders them
both an impressive witness to 'every day life' of the SS at the
very scene of mass extermination and a significant source for the
history of the Holocaust.
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