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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785147203321

Autore

Sofsky Wolfgang

Titolo

The Order of Terror : the Concentration Camp / / Wolfgang Sofsky ; translated by William Templer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-282-75317-7

9786612753176

1-4008-2218-1

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TemplerWilliam

Disciplina

940.5318

Soggetti

Internment camps

Nazi concentration camps - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Entry; 2. Absolute Power; 3. On the History of the Concentration Camps; PART II: SPACE AND TIME; 4. Zones and Camp Plans; 5. Boundary and Gate; 6. The Block; 7. Camp Time; 8. Prisoner's Time; PART III: SOCIAL STRUCTURES; 9. The SS Personnel; 10. Classes and Classifications; 11. Self-Management and the Gradation of Power; 12. The Aristocracy; 13. Mass, Exchange, Dissociation; PART IV: WORK; 14. Work and Slavery; 15. The Beneficiaries; 16. Work Situations; PART V: Violence and Death

17. The Muselmann 18. Epidemics; 19. Terror Punishment; 20. Violent Excesses; 21. Selection; 22. The Death Factory; Epilogue; Selected Glossary and Abbreviations; Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

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.