An edition of Menschen in Auschwitz (1972)

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August 18, 2024 | History
An edition of Menschen in Auschwitz (1972)

People in Auschwitz

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Nahezu emotionslos und darum mit um so eindrücklicherer Sachlichkeit dokumentiert Hermann Langbein mit den Aussagen von Opfern und Tätern den Alltag in Auschwitz. Bei seinen Protokollen hat er sich von dem Grundsatz leiten lassen, daß die Wahrheit über den Massenmord im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert genauso den Verzicht auf die Dämonisierung der Mörder wie auf die Apotheose der Opfer verlange. »Die Anklage gilt der unmenschlichen Situation, die das nationalsozialistische System bewirkt.«

(Quelle: S. Fischer Verlag)

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People in Auschwitz
2004, The University of North Carolina Press, Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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People in Auschwitz
December 4, 2003, The University of North Carolina Press
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Table of Contents

Author's rationale
The camp and its jargon
The history of the extermination camp
Numbers
The prisoners
Under the power of the camp
The Muselmann
The inmate and death
Music and games
Canada
The VIPs
Jewish VIPs
Creating accomplices
The Sonderkommando
The inmate infirmary
Those born in Auschwitz
Resistance
The jailers
The guards
People, not devils
The commandant
SS leaders
Physicians in the SS
Dr. Wirths
Subordinates of the SS leaders
Sexuality
Reactions of human nature
Frank and Pestek
Civilians in Auschwitz
Afterward
Inmates after liberation
SS members after the war
Conclusion and warning

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-536) and index

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Chapel Hill

Classifications

Library of Congress
D805.5.A96 L3613 2004, 2003020485 [D]

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 549 p. :
Number of pages
549

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Open Library
OL18174504M
Internet Archive
peopleinauschwit0000lang
ISBN 10
0807828165
LCCN
2003020485
OCLC/WorldCat
53045244
Library Thing
1995204
Goodreads
983658

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In a sociological study of the concentration camps, H.G. Adler, who had first-hand experience of them, writes: "The problems of Nazism represent nothing but an extreme-admittedly insanely extreme-special case of conditions or possibilities that are encountered in modern society all over the world, at least latently and often manifestly...Cruelty and deindividualization are what make a concentration camp possible; both have to be systematically fostered for it to exist and become what it is: a place of absolute and ultimate subjugation beyond the bounds of a life worth living."
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