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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.
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"
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.
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.
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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