Description |
xxxi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
The world outside the camp: frames of reference. The authority of terror. Defense of the dimension of life -- Institutions of state crime -- Living space. At home. The road to work. Space and communication -- Breaking the prisoners' solidarity -- Social differentiation and the odds for survival. Unequal chances on arrival. Unequal chances of defense -- A place in the structure of terror. Penal crews. The privileges of relative stability. Ambiguous privileges. Muselmanner-beyond chance and judgment. Industrial death. The elite -- The psychological relativity of numbers. Size of the apparatus of violence. Colored triangles. Letters and numbers -- Love and erotica -- Socio-economic defense mechanisms. The function and evolution of the camp market. The battle for power -- The organized resistance movement -- Mechanisms of adaption and self-defense. The social experiment. Reduction of material needs -- People and values. Values as a frame of reference. The reinterpretation of moral standards |
Analysis |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
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Auschwitz Concentration camp |
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Political prisoners Poland Obswiqecim Attitudes |
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Political prisoners Poland Oświęcim Attitudes |
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Social values |
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
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Auschwitz Concentration camp |
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Political prisoners Poland Obswiqecim Attitudes |
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Political prisoners Poland Oświęcim Attitudes |
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Social values |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) |
Notes |
Also available via the World Wide Web |
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Translation of: 'Wartosci a przemoc, zarys socjologicznej problematyki Oswiecimia'. Warszawa : Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1973 |
Subject |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Political prisoners -- Poland -- Auschwitz -- Attitudes
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Political prisoners -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Attitudes.
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Social values.
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Author |
Leach, Catherine S.
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LC no. |
76003886 |
ISBN |
0520032101 |
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0520042425 |
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9780520032101 |
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9780520042421 |
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