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The Order of Terror : the Concentration Camp / Wolfgang Sofsky ; translated by William Templer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sofsky, Wolfgang.
- Standardized Title:
- Ordnung des Terrors. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internment camps.
- Nazi concentration camps--Germany.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel--History.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-356).
- ISBN:
- 9786612753176
- 9781400813452
- 140081345X
- 9780691043548
- 069104354X
- 9781282753174
- 1282753177
- 9781400822188
- 1400822181
- OCLC:
- 700688370
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