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Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp, Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper

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Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp, Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

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Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp

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29471119

Responsibility statement

Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper

Summary

Commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute." ... 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. A major study of the design and construction of the gas chambers and crematoria reveals the economic competitiveness, bureaucratic struggles, and technological sophistication behind the manufacture of the machinery that was used to murder and incinerate thousands daily ..."

Table Of Contents

Auschwitz : an overview / Yisrael Gutman -- The system of prisoner exploitation / Franciszek Piper -- The satellite camps / Shmuel Krakowski -- The number of victims / Franciszek Piper -- Auschwitz and the "final solution" / Raul Hilberg -- A site in search of a mission / Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- Gas chambers and crematoria / Franciszek Piper -- The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz / Jean-Claude Pressac with Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- The plunder of victims and their corpses / Andrzej Strzelecki -- Historical-sociological profile of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- Rudolf Höss : manager of crime / Aleksander Lasik-- Nazi doctors / Robert Jay Lifton and Amy Hackett -- The crimes of Josef Mengele / Helena Kubica -- The Auschwitz prisoner administration / Danuta Czech -- Hospitals ; Women / Irena Strzelecka -- Children / Helena Kubica -- The family camp / Nili Keren -- Gypsies / Yehuda BauerHungarian Jews / Randolph L. Braham -- Auschwitz : a psychological perspective / Leo Eitinger -- The Auschwitz underground / Hermann Langbein -- Prisoner escapes / Henryk Swiebocki -- Diaries of the Sonderkommando / Nathan Cohen -- What was known and when / Martin Gilbert -- The Vrba and Wetzler Report / Miroslav Karny -- Why Auschwitz wasn't bombed / David S. Wyman -- Postwar prosecution of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- The literature of Auschwitz / Lawrence Langer

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