Hitler's bureaucrats : the Nazi security police and the banality of evil / Yaacov Lozowick ; translated by Haim Watzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lozowick, Yaacov, author.

Contributor:

Watzman, Haim, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nazis--Biography.

Nazis.

War criminals--Germany--Psychology.

War criminals.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, [New York] : Continuum, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-71054-0

9786612710544

1-4411-8626-3

OCLC:

664232794