Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death CampYisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum An authoritative account of the operation of the Auschwitz death camp.Ò. . . a comprehensive work that is unlikely to be overtaken for many years. This learnedvolume is about as chilling as historiography gets.Ó ÑWalter Laqueur, The New RepublicÒ. . . a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark against forgetting.Ó ÑPublishers WeeklyÒRigorously documented, brilliantly written, organized, and edited . . . the most authoritativebook about a place of unsurpassed importance in human history.Ó ÑJohn K. RothÒNever before has knowledge concerning every aspect of Auschwitz . . . been made available in such authority, depth, and comprehensiveness.Ó ÑRichard L. RubensteinLeading scholars from the United States, Israel, Poland, and other European countries provide the first comprehensive account of what took place at the Auschwitz death camp. Principal sections of the book address the institutional history of the camp, the technology and dimensions of the genocide carried out there, the profiles of the perpetrators and the lives of the inmates, underground resistance and escapes, and what the outside world knew about Auschwitz and when.Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. |
Contents
Auschwitz An Overview | 5 |
The System of Prisoner Exploitation | 34 |
The Satellite Camps | 50 |
The Number of Victims | 61 |
Dimensions of Genocide | 77 |
Auschwitz and the Ftnal Solution | 81 |
A Site in Search of a Mission | 93 |
Gas Chambers and Crematoria | 157 |
Women | 393 |
Children | 412 |
The Family Camp | 428 |
Gypsies | 441 |
Hungarian Jews | 456 |
Auschwitz A Psychological Perspective | 469 |
The Resistance | 483 |
The Auschwitz Underground | 485 |
The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz | 183 |
The Plunder of Victims and Their Corpses | 246 |
The Perpetrators | 267 |
HistoricalSociological Profile of the Auschwitz SS | 271 |
Rudolf Boss | 288 |
Nazi Doctors | 301 |
The Crimes of Josef Mengele | 317 |
The Inmates | 359 |
The Auschwitz Prisoner Administration | 363 |
Hospitals | 379 |
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