The Order of Terror : The Concentration Camp

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During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme viole...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sofsky, Wolfgang (Author)
Other Authors: Templer, William (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. > Schutzstaffel.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. > Schutzstaffel > History.
Nazi concentration camps.
Internment camps.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Camps d'internement > Allemagne.
Camps de concentration nazis > Allemagne.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Germany.
Nazi concentration camps > Germany.
Germany.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social so
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages).
ISBN:9781400822188

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