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Autore |
Lozowick Yaacov |
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Hitler's bureaucrats : the Nazi security police and the banality of evil / / Yaacov Lozowick ; translated by Haim Watzman |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2002 |
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©2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-71054-0 |
9786612710544 |
1-4411-8626-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nazis |
War criminals - Germany - Psychology |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Archival Sources; Tables and Charts of SS Organization; Introduction; 1 From Theory to Practice: 1933-8; 2 Documents in the Bureaucratic System; 3 Toward the Final Solution; 4 Executing the Final Solution in Germany; 5 Holland; 6 France; 7 Hungary; 8 Conclusion: Listening to the Screams; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For many, the name of Adolf Eichmann is synonymous with the Nazi murder of six million Jews. As a perpetuator of the Final Solution he stands alongside Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler as one of history's most notorious murderers, yet ever since Hannah Arendt's seminal book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, there has been disagreement about the essence of Eichmann and by extension, about the definition of evil action. Was he a human monster or a petty bureaucrat? To what degree did the totalitarian organization to which he belonged absolve him and his staff from indivi |
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