| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 549 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Author's rationale -- The camp and its jargon -- The history of the extermination camp -- Numbers -- The prisoners -- Under the power of the camp -- The Muselmann -- The inmate and death -- Music and games -- Canada -- The VIPs -- Jewish VIPs -- Creating accomplices -- The Sonderkommando -- The inmate infirmary -- Those born in Auschwitz -- Resistance -- The jailers -- The guards -- People, not devils -- The commandant -- SS leaders -- Physicians in the SS -- Dr. Wirths -- Subordinates of the SS leaders -- Sexuality -- Reactions of human nature -- Frank and Pestek -- Civilians in Auschwitz -- Afterward -- Inmates after liberation -- SS members after the war -- Conclusion and warning |
| Summary |
People in Auschwitz is very different from other works on the most infamous of Nazi annihilation centers. Langbein's account is a scrupulously scholarly achievement interwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military personnel, and official documents |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-536) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English, translated from German |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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| SUBJECT |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) fast |
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) nli |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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Concentratiekampen.
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Verzet.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003020485 |
| ISBN |
0807863637 |
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9780807863633 |
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