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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History Personal narratives Historical NonFiction Récits personnels |
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Named Person: | Udo Klausa; Udo Klausa; Udo Klausa |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Fulbrook |
ISBN: | 9780199603305 0199603308 9780199679256 0199679258 |
OCLC Number: | 785077507 |
Awards: | Winner of Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History 2012 Winner of Joint Winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary. |
Description: | xvii, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Legacies of violence -- Będzin before 1939 -- Border crossings -- The makings of a Nazi Landrat -- An early question of violence -- Only administration -- Means of survival -- Escalation, 1941-1942 -- Towards extermination -- The deportation of August 1942 -- Ghettoization for the 'final solution' -- Final thresholds -- Afterwards and after-words. |
Responsibility: | Mary Fulbrook. |
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Abstract:
The story of a small town near Auschwitz and of its local Nazi administrator. An ordinary functionary and family man without whose help, and those of thousands like him, the murderous plans of the Nazi elite could never have been fully realized.
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A milestone in Holocaust historiography. Christopher Browning, New York Review of Books absorbing ... a precise and moving account Jane Caplan, Times Literary Supplement The readers of this book will obtain a new and different perspective on the Holocaust as its central figure serves as an example of the vast number of Nazis in administrative positions who made the process of systematic killing possible by their dedicated and diligent commitment to a murderous regime. Gerhard L. Weinberg, History Book Club Read more...
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- Klausa, Udo.
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Będzin.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Będzin.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Będzin -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- Będzin (Poland) -- History -- 20th century.
- Będzin (Poland) -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Będzin -- Personal narratives.
- Juifs -- Persécutions -- Pologne -- Będzin.
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Pologne -- Będzin.
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Pologne -- Będzin -- Récits personnels.
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Aspect moral.
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Aspect psychologique.
- Employees.
- Ethics.
- Jews -- Persecutions.
- Psychological aspects.
- Poland -- Będzin.
- Judenverfolgung
- Be̜dzin
- Landrat
- Nationalsozialismus
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