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  • Deadly Documents: Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1: Can Genocide Be Regulated?
  • An Ontological Shift
  • Revisiting the Final Solution
  • Sample, Method, and Chapter Organization
  • The Importance of the Study
  • CHAPTER 2: From Darwin to Death Wagons
  • Origins of European Anti-Semitism
  • The Rise of Racial Anti-Semitism
  • Development of the Gas Vans
  • Operational Challenges in the Field
  • CHAPTER 3: The Peopleâ€?s CommunityOrganizations as Open Systems
  • Unifying Principles of Institutional Culture
  • Aspects of SS Organizational Culture
  • Lines of Organizational Authority
  • German Bureaucratic Document Protocols
  • CHAPTER 4: The Participants and Their Motives
  • Personnel of the Gas Van Program
  • Individual Relationships and Motives
  • CHAPTER 5: Documents for Destruction
  • Setting Up the Analyses
  • Introducing the Documents
  • CHAPTER 6: A Community of Killers
  • Constructing the Rhetorical Community
  • A “Safetyâ€? Narrative and Protean MetaphorsDiscovering Organizational Genres in the Texts
  • Rhetorical Community in Organizational Contexts
  • Visuality in the Rhetorical Community
  • CHAPTER 7: Discourse of Death
  • What Discourse Analysis Can Add
  • The Killersâ€? Use of Linguistic Resources
  • Reconstructing an Organizational Discourse
  • CHAPTER 8: Revisiting “Expediencyâ€?
  • Boundary Work in Action
  • Lanzmann and the “Whyâ€? Question
  • Implications of the Lanzmann Alterations
  • CHAPTER 9: Bridging the Boundaries
  • An Ahistorical Consensus?
  • Expediency Without EthicsProtecting Rhetoric and Rhetoricians
  • Safeguarding Science and Civilization
  • Converging on a Comfortable Distance
  • What the Orderings May Reveal
  • CHAPTER 10: Some Ethical Implications
  • A Bias for Explanation
  • Prescriptive and Descriptive Ethics
  • Afterword: The Reality of Words and Their Aftermaths
  • References
  • Index