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The Order of Terror

Wolfgang Sofsky

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Description for The Order of Terror Paperback. Looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, this book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Translator(s): Templer, William. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554. The Concentration Camp. 370 pages, black & white illustrations. Looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, this book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight: 530. Translator(s): Templer, William.
During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social solidarity, disrupted the very ideas of time and space, perverted human ... Read more

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Publisher

Princeton University Press

Number of pages

370

Format

Paperback

Publication date

1999

Condition

New

Weight

553g

Number of Pages

368

Place of Publication

New Jersey, United States

ISBN

9780691006857

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V9780691006857

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About Wolfgang Sofsky

Wolfgang Sofsky is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Göttingen. The Order of Terror was awarded the prestigious 1993 Geschwister-Scholl Prize. The book has also been published in France and Italy. Sofsky is the author of four other books in German about power, organization, and the anthropology of violence. William Templer is a widely published translator of ... Read more

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"[Sofsky] shows the structure of the concentration camp as a complex place of modern civilization. What he has achieved will take your breath away... He has written a book which will fundamentally enrich our knowledge of human nature, the organization of power, and the execution of terror."
Der Spiegel "A work of impeccable scholarship, a definitive history of what has come ... Read moreto epitomize the ultimate evil."
Booklist "[Sofsky] manages to characterize a piece of social reality that functioned according to special laws and that can only become apparent from an internal description... This book will shortly take its place among the indispensable standard works [in the field]."
Die Zeit "... Sofsky's vast and painstaking research [produces an] admirable and horrifying book."
Publishers Weekly "A thorough study of the harrowing dynamics of terror, violence, and absolute power in the Nazi concentration camps... impeccably researched ... A detailed, rigorous sociological analysis of the incomprehensible."
Kirkus Reviews "Sofsky patiently shows how virtually everything in the camps, from their physical layout to the use of time to the categorization of prisoners, was a way of exercising and consolidating absolute power over an increasingly dehumanized prisoner population. An important study."
Library Journal "This is a work of impeccable scholarship, a definitive history of what has come to epitomize the ultimate evil."
Booklist "[A] brilliant book... Sofsky... takes the sheer physical reality of the camps as a given and asks how they functioned. It is, he implies, insufficient just to document the existence of evil. We also have an obligation... to understand the small details and everyday structure of its dynamics."
Alan Wolfe, Commonweal "In his important study of the hierarchy of the concentration camp, Wolfgang Sofsky shows how power in the camps was based on seniority, politics, and race."
The New York Review of Books "A cool and systematic exposition of many important features of the camp experience... The great strengths of his book are its analytical rigour and elegant structure, and the skillful use of both original sources and survivor testimonies."
Michael Burleigh, The Times Literary Supplement "What Sofsky tells us about human behavior in extreme situations is profoundly disturbing, and his book should be read by anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding not only of Nazi terror, but also of the dark potential of modern society."
Omer Bartov, The New Republic "This is an extraordinary and brilliantly written book... Brilliant sociology that testifies to the endurance of the human spirit."
Sociology (UK) "What [Sofsky] has achieved will take your breath away... He has written a book that will fundamentally enrich our knowledge of human nature, the organization of power, and the execution of terror."
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