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UNINA9910780185503321 |
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Autore |
Allen Michael Thad |
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Titolo |
The business of genocide : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps / / Michael Thad Allen |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908739-8-9 |
0-8078-6001-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) : illustrations |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-365) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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