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Through a selection of primary and secondary sources, Death by Design examines the uses of technology during the Holocaust and the specific ways in which scientists, architects, medical professionals, businessmen, and engineers participated in the planning and operation of the concentration and extermination camps that were the foundation of the "final solution." The book discusses the overriding intellectual, ethical, and philosophical implications of the Nazis' use of science and technology in their killing operations. - Back cover.
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Death By Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany
December 31, 2005, Longman
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0321276345 9780321276346
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Table of Contents
Part 1 : Details of the killing operations.
The killing process at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Design and development of the gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwitz
Engineering mass murder at Auschwitz
Part 2 : Technology, management policy, and politics : general issues.
Technology and politics in totalitarian regimes : Nazi Germany
Nazi ideology, management, and engineering technology in the SS
Part 3 : The role of architectural design in Nazi Germany.
Architectural aesthetics and political ideology in Nazi Germany
Architecture and technology in Nazi Germany : memoirs
Albert Speer : ethics, architecture, and technology
Part 4 : Medicine and biology in Nazi Germany.
Genetic and racial theories in the Nazi war on cancer
Medicalized killing in the Nazi death camps
Part 5 : Engineering, technology, and business.
IBM in Nazi Germany
The crime of I.G. Farben : slave labor and mass murder in Nazi Germany
Part 6 : Concluding ethical considerations.
Technological evil : cultural values in the Holocaust
The Physical Object
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