In a sociological study of the concentration camps, H.G. Adler, who had first-hand experience of them, writes: "The problems of Nazism represent nothing but an extreme-admittedly insanely extreme-special case of conditions or possibilities that are encountered in modern society all over the world, at least latently and often manifestly...Cruelty and deindividualization are what make a concentration camp possible; both have to be systematically fostered for it to exist and become what it is: a place of absolute and ultimate subjugation beyond the bounds of a life worth living."
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People in Auschwitz
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Nahezu emotionslos und darum mit um so eindrücklicherer Sachlichkeit dokumentiert Hermann Langbein mit den Aussagen von Opfern und Tätern den Alltag in Auschwitz. Bei seinen Protokollen hat er sich von dem Grundsatz leiten lassen, daß die Wahrheit über den Massenmord im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert genauso den Verzicht auf die Dämonisierung der Mörder wie auf die Apotheose der Opfer verlange. »Die Anklage gilt der unmenschlichen Situation, die das nationalsozialistische System bewirkt.«
(Quelle: S. Fischer Verlag)
Publish Date
2004
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press,
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Language
English
Pages
549
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp), German Prisoners and prisons, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Prisoners and prisons, German, War criminals, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, Medical personnel, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Concentratiekampen, Verzet, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands, Holocauste, 1939-1945, Auschwitz (Pologne : Camp de concentration)Places
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Table of Contents
Author's rationale
The camp and its jargon
The history of the extermination camp
Numbers
The prisoners
Under the power of the camp
The Muselmann
The inmate and death
Music and games
Canada
The VIPs
Jewish VIPs
Creating accomplices
The Sonderkommando
The inmate infirmary
Those born in Auschwitz
Resistance
The jailers
The guards
People, not devils
The commandant
SS leaders
Physicians in the SS
Dr. Wirths
Subordinates of the SS leaders
Sexuality
Reactions of human nature
Frank and Pestek
Civilians in Auschwitz
Afterward
Inmates after liberation
SS members after the war
Conclusion and warning
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-536) and index
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