- Taschenbuch: 468 Seiten
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co; Auflage: 2002. (April 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0393322912
- ISBN-13: 978-0393322910
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,7 x 17,6 x 3,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 556.658 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Auschwitz concentration camp has come to represent the ultimate evil, the apex of horror that was the Holocaust. Founded by Germans in 1270, the town of Auschwitz eventually came under Polish rule, but in 1939 Germany conquered Poland and thus regained it. The fundamental question of why Auschwitz was the site of a camp designed to terrorize and incarcerate Poles and why this camp became an extermination center for Jews is the focus of this book. The camp was established in May_ 1940 and abandoned in January 1945; in that brief time, more than 1,200,000 people were killed by the Nazis. Through oral histories of survivors as well as never-before-published memoirs, depositions, and autobiographies, the authors explore the camp's impact on the daily lives of the inmates. They include recently found architectural plans, designs, and documents. This is truly the definitive history of the town and camp. George Cohen
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Significant new research that examines both the relevant prewar history of Auschwitz and the blueprints of the death camp's daily functions. Dwork (Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History/Clark Univ.) and van Pelt (Cultural History/Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario) present both the historical, cultural, and architectural plans of the Nazis for Auschwitz. The entire surrounding region of Upper Silesia had been long targeted to be wrested from Poland and returned to Germany, whose claims extended back to the conquests of 13th-century Teutonic knights. The area referred to as ``the German East'' by Josef Goebbels was to become a rural paradise for redirected Germans, while the local Poles were to be expelled, exploited for slave labor, and ultimately exterminated. Even more damning than Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's controversial new study, Hitler's Willing Executioners, this book makes clear that thousands of transportation workers, accountants, Farben employees, engineers, architects, and builders were as conscious of the lethal goals of Auschwitz as Himmler or Hitler. In the slower-paced cremations of murder victims in 1940, for example, the camp utilized ``an efficient and technologically advanced doubled-muffle . . . coke-heated furnace from Topf and Sons for 9,000 marks'' with ``the capacity to incinerate seventy bodies in twenty-four hours.'' With ``one wash barrack per 7,800 inmates and one latrine hut per 7,000,'' it is argued that degradation and disease were not incidental, but that ``the design was, in fact, lethal.'' The pride of the gathered architects of Auschwitz-Birkenau is successfully captured in a group photo, as is the sincerity of a Polish nun in 1990 comparing the campgrounds to the sanctity of Golgotha. If the amalgam of insightful historical analysis and exhaustive pictorial and financial documentation is challenging for students of this period, just think of the difficult reading facing Holocaust deniers. Scores of van Pelt's photos and enhanced plans and blueprints supplement the lengthy notes in this peerless work of documentation and research that sheds new light on this century's darkest address. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Enjoyed this book greatly. It's very hard to find history books in English about Galicia. Was somewhat disappointed that the author didnt spend enough time on historical development of the area, but acknowledge that the author's focus is different than my own. Still grateful for all the work. It is a resource in my personal library!
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This book skillfully combines a history of German influence in the East with a detailed look at the death and labor camps of Auschwitz. Using the architectural records left behind as well as statements of people who were there to outline the story, the authors trace the development and changes of the Auschwitz camps from 1939 to the present day. The skillful use of architectural plans provides insight into the changing purposes the camp adapted to in its short but terrible life. Also, the authors trace the German influence in the area back to the founding of the town in 1270 and relate the camp's shifting purpose to the territorial goals of the Germans in the East both before and during the war.
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An in-depth study of a Polish town, infamous for the Nazi death camp. The authors place this dark history within the broad context of European history. The focus is of course the camp itself, and the terrible acts committed there, but the inclusion of the town's history certainly rounded out the story.
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