Theory and Practice of Hell The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them

Name: Theory and Practice of Hell The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
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ISBN: 9780374529925

ISBN-10: 0374529922

ISBN-13: 9780374529925

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eugen Kogon, Heinz Norden, Nikolaus Wachsmann

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By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to be reached intact was Buchenwald, in central Germany. American soldiers struggled to make sense of the shocking scenes they witnessed inside. They asked a small group of former inmates to draft a report on the camp. It was led by Eugen Kogon, a German political prisoner who had been an inmate since 1939. The Theory and Practice of Hell is his classic account of life inside. nbsp; Unlike many other books by survivors who published immediately after the war, The Theory and Practice of Hell is…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.61" wide x 8.26" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Maps


Introduction: Eugen Kogon and the SS State




The Aims and Organization of the SS State



The Purpose, Character, and Number of the German Concentration Camps



The Categories of Prisoners



The Physical Setup of the Camps



The Organization of the Camps



Admission to the Camps and Duration of Imprisonment



Daily Routine



Working Conditions



Discipline



Food



Money and Mail



"Recreation"



Sanitation and Health



Scientific Experiments



Reprisals Against the Jews



Reprisals Against Other "Inferior Races"



Liquidation of Other "Undesirables"



Special Places of Execution and Disposal of the Dead



Statistics of Mortality



The Underground Struggle



The End of the Camps



The Psychology of the SS



The Psychology of the Prisoners



The German People and the Concentration Camps-After 1945


Index