Auschwitz : a history
Steinbacher, Sybille, 1966-2018
Book
Total copies: 2
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.
Main title:
Auschwitz : a history / Sybille Steinbacher ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
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Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, [2018].
Collation:
167 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the German.This translation originally published: 2005.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141987484 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318 STE940.5318
LC class:
D805.5.A96
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
590435