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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959474903321
• Autore: Sofsky Wolfgang
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 9786612753176; 9781400813452; 140081345X; 9780691043548; 069104354X; 9781282753174; 1282753177; 9781400822188; 1400822181
• 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 bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-356).
• 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 Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down.