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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Langbein, Hermann, 1912-1995. People in Auschwitz. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ©2004 (OCoLC)607138027 Online version: Langbein, Hermann, 1912-1995. People in Auschwitz. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ©2004 (OCoLC)607138035 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hermann Langbein |
ISBN: | 0807828165 9780807828168 9781469628370 1469628376 |
OCLC Number: | 53045244 |
Description: | xvi, 549 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Author's rationale -- The camp and its jargon -- The history of the extermination camp -- Numbers -- The prisoners -- Under the power of the camp -- The Muselmann -- The inmate and death -- Music and games -- Canada -- The VIPs -- Jewish VIPs -- Creating accomplices -- The Sonderkommando -- The inmate infirmary -- Those born in Auschwitz -- Resistance -- The jailers -- The guards -- People, not devils -- The commandant -- SS leaders -- Physicians in the SS -- Dr. Wirths -- Subordinates of the SS leaders -- Sexuality -- Reactions of human nature -- Frank and Pestek -- Civilians in Auschwitz -- Afterward -- Inmates after liberation -- SS members after the war -- Conclusion and warning. |
Other Titles: | Menschen in Auschwitz. |
Responsibility: | Hermann Langbein ; translated by Harry Zohn ; foreword by Henry Friedlander. |
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Abstract:
People in Auschwitz is very different from other works on the most infamous of Nazi annihilation centers. Langbein's account is a scrupulously scholarly achievement interwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military personnel, and official documents.
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