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Auschwitz : A History

Auschwitz : A History Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Sybille Steinbacher

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  • Title Auschwitz : A History
  • Author Sybille Steinbacher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 167
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
  • Date 2006
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0060825820I4N00
  • ISBN 9780060825829 / 0060825820
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.84 x 5.84 x 0.44 in (17.37 x 14.83 x 1.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

Summary

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.

First line

The history of Auschwitz is complex, and has not hitherto been the subject of a truly comprehensive work.

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