A small town near Auschwitz : ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust / Mary Fulbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulbrook, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Sonderkommandos--Poland--Interviews.

Sonderkommandos.

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers.The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area - inhumane processes that were the precursors of genocide. Yet he later claimed, like so many other Germans after the war, that he had 'known nothing about it'; and that he had personally tried to save a Jew bef

Contents:

Cover; Contents; A Note on Terms, Polish Place Names, and Other Conventions; List of Maps and Figures; 1. Legacies of Violence; 2. Będzin before 1939; 3. Border Crossings; 4. The Making of a Nazi Landrat; 5. An Early Question of Violence; 6. 'Only Administration'; 7. Means of Survival; 8. Escalation, 1941-1942; 9. Towards Extermination; 10. The Deportations of August 1942; 11. Ghettoization for the 'Final Solution'; 12. Final Thresholds; 13. Afterwards and After-Words; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-161175-1

1-283-59743-8

9786613909886

0-19-161174-3

OCLC:

811408606