Business of Genocide
Michael Thad Allen
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Paperback. Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; KCZ; TBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included designing and constructing the concentration camps and gas chambers, building secret underground weapons factories, and brokering slave laborers to private companies such as Volkswagen and IG Farben. ... Read more
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included designing and constructing the concentration camps and gas chambers, building secret underground weapons factories, and brokering slave laborers to private companies such as Volkswagen and IG Farben. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807856154
SKU
V9780807856154
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About Michael Thad Allen
Michael Thad Allen is associate professor of modern German history and the history of technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
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