The Resource Auschwitz : a new history, Laurence Rees
Auschwitz : a new history, Laurence Rees
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- Summary
- Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail--from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that turned between guards and prisoners, to the on-camp brothel in which the lines between those guards and prisoners became surprisingly blurred. Rees examines the strategic decisions that led the Nazi leadership to prescribe Auschwitz as its primary site for the extinction of Europe's Jews--their "Final Solution." He concludes that many of the horrors that were perpetrated in Auschwitz were driven not just by ideological inevitability but as a "practical" response to a war in the East that had begun to go wrong for Germany. A terrible immoral pragmatism characterizes many of the decisions that determined what happened at Auschwitz. Thus the story of the camp becomes a morality tale, too, in which evil is shown to proceed in a series of deft, almost noiseless incremental steps until it produces the overwhelming horror of the industrial scale slaughter that was inflicted in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Insights gleaned from more than one hundred original interviews shed new light on history's most famous death camp, with the testimonies of survivors providing a detailed and chilling portrait of the camp's inner workings, in a companion volume to the PBS documentary
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- xxii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Surprising beginnings
- Orders and initiatives
- Factories of death
- Corruption
- Frenzied killing
- Liberation and retribution
- Isbn
- 9781586483036
- Label
- Auschwitz : a new history
- Title
- Auschwitz
- Title remainder
- a new history
- Statement of responsibility
- Laurence Rees
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail--from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that turned between guards and prisoners, to the on-camp brothel in which the lines between those guards and prisoners became surprisingly blurred. Rees examines the strategic decisions that led the Nazi leadership to prescribe Auschwitz as its primary site for the extinction of Europe's Jews--their "Final Solution." He concludes that many of the horrors that were perpetrated in Auschwitz were driven not just by ideological inevitability but as a "practical" response to a war in the East that had begun to go wrong for Germany. A terrible immoral pragmatism characterizes many of the decisions that determined what happened at Auschwitz. Thus the story of the camp becomes a morality tale, too, in which evil is shown to proceed in a series of deft, almost noiseless incremental steps until it produces the overwhelming horror of the industrial scale slaughter that was inflicted in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Insights gleaned from more than one hundred original interviews shed new light on history's most famous death camp, with the testimonies of survivors providing a detailed and chilling portrait of the camp's inner workings, in a companion volume to the PBS documentary
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rees, Laurence
- Dewey number
- 940.53/1853858
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D805.5.A96
- LC item number
- R44 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust survivors
- War criminals
- Label
- Auschwitz : a new history, Laurence Rees
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-312) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Surprising beginnings -- Orders and initiatives -- Factories of death -- Corruption -- Frenzied killing -- Liberation and retribution
- Control code
- 56671956
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- xxii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781586483036
- Lccn
- 2004043196
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- UMKC: Forms part of the Suzanne Statland Collection in Holocaust Studies.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Auschwitz : a new history, Laurence Rees
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-312) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Surprising beginnings -- Orders and initiatives -- Factories of death -- Corruption -- Frenzied killing -- Liberation and retribution
- Control code
- 56671956
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- xxii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781586483036
- Lccn
- 2004043196
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- UMKC: Forms part of the Suzanne Statland Collection in Holocaust Studies.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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