Business of Genocide The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps

Name: Business of Genocide The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
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ISBN: 9780807856154

ISBN-10: 0807856150

ISBN-13: 9780807856154

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael Thad Allen

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During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included designing and constructing the concentration camps and gas chambers, building secret underground weapons factories, and brokering slave laborers to private companies such as Volkswagen and IG Farben. The Business of Genocide powerfully contradicts the…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English

Michael Thad Allen is associate professor of modern German history and the history of technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.




Origins of the SS : the ideology is the modern organization



A political economy of misery : the SS "Fuhrer" corporation



Manufacturing a new order



Engineering a new order



My newly erected house : slavery in the modern war economy



The hour of the engineer



Total war and the end in rubble