Order of Terror The Concentration Camp

Name: Order of Terror The Concentration Camp
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ISBN: 9780691006857

ISBN-10: 0691006857

ISBN-13: 9780691006857

Edition: 1996

Authors: Wolfgang Sofsky, William Templer

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During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social solidarity, disrupted the very ideas of time and space, perverted human work into torture, and unleashed…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 6/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.144



List of Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Entry



Absolute Power



On the History of the Concentration Camps



Space and Time



Zones and Camp Plans



Boundary and Gate



The Block



Camp Time



Prisoner's Time



Social Structures



The SS Personnel



Classes and Classifications



Self-Management and the Gradation of Power



The Aristocracy



Mass, Exchange, Dissociation



Work



Work and Slavery



The Beneficiaries



Work Situations



Violence and Death



The Muselmann



Epidemics



Terror Punishment



Violent Excesses



Selection



The Death Factory


Epilogue


Selected Glossary and Abbreviations


Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography


Notes


Bibliography