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Female SS guards and workaday violence : the Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 /

How did "ordinary women," like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mail©·ander examines the daily work of twenty-eight women employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the concentration and death camp Majdanek/Lublin in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mailänder Koslov, Elissa (Autor)
Otros Autores: Szobar, Patricia (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Methodological and Theoretical Considerations
  • Chapter 2. The Majdanek Concentration and Death Camp: An Overview
  • Chapter 3. Women Looking for Work: Paths to Careers in the Concentration Camps
  • Chapter 4. Ravensbruck Training Camp: The Concentration Camp as Disciplinary Space
  • Chapter 5. Going East: Transfer to the Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp, 1942-1944
  • Chapter 6. Work Conditions at Majdanek
  • Chapter 7. Annihilation as Work: The Daily Work of Killing in the Camp
  • Chapter 8. Escapes and Their Meaning within the Structure of Power and Violence in the Camp
  • Chapter 9. License to Kill? Unauthorized Actions by the Camp Guards
  • Chapter 10. Violence as Social Practice
  • Chapter 11. Cruelty: An Anthropological Perspective
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.