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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455061903321

Autore

Allen Michael Thad

Titolo

The business of genocide [[electronic resource] ] : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps / / Michael Thad Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8078-6001-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Conscript labor - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - Germany

Genocide - Germany - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Forced labor - Germany - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-365) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Origins of the SS; 2. A Political Economy of Misery; 3. Manufacturing A New Order; 4. Engineering a New Order; 5. My Newly Erected House; 6. The Hour of the Engineer; 7. Total War and the End in Rubble; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the bureaucrats behind the Nazi slave labour camps. It contradicts the assumption that the SS forced slavery upon the German economy, demonstrating that instead industrialists actively sought out the Business Administration Main Office as a valued partner in the war economy.