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.

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 describes the history of the city of Auschwitz during the Second World War, focussing on the conceptional, chronological and spatial unity of the policy of Germanization and extermination both in Auschwitz and the neighbouring region of Eastern Upper Silesia. It becomes apparent that Auschwitz played an eminent role in the economic policy and settlement schemes of the National Socialists. Despite its close proximity to the concentration and extermination camp, the city became the model site for Germanizing the East.

Der Band enthalt u.a. folgende Register: Namen-, und Decknamenregister Gruppenregister Ortsregister Register jeweils fur die Verfahren vor dem Reichsgericht und dem Reichskriegsgericht Konkordanzen jeweils fur die staatsanwaltlichen und die gerichtlichen Aktenzeichen"

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 any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the 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.