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Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
Gotz Aly
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Hardback. Examines the role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, this title shows how the unthinkable technocratic "solutions" to Germany's wartime problems were not only thought but spelled out and implemented. Translator(s): Blunden, A. G. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 line illus. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 714.
Two of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, Architects of Annihilation shows how the unthinkable technocratic solutions to Germany's wartime problems were not only thought but spelled out and implemented. Documenting the eager participation of some of the country's best and brightest, it rejects interpretations that identify only Nazi leaders as the perpetrators of the Holocaust. For Hitler's thinkers--career-minded demographers, geographers, economists, civil servants, and academics in the Third Reich's think ... Read more
Two of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, Architects of Annihilation shows how the unthinkable technocratic solutions to Germany's wartime problems were not only thought but spelled out and implemented. Documenting the eager participation of some of the country's best and brightest, it rejects interpretations that identify only Nazi leaders as the perpetrators of the Holocaust. For Hitler's thinkers--career-minded demographers, geographers, economists, civil servants, and academics in the Third Reich's think ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
714g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691089386
SKU
V9780691089386
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About Gotz Aly
Gotz Aly is a Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. His books include Final Solution and Cleansing the Fatherland . Susanne Heim is an investigative journalist and historian based in Berlin.
Reviews for Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
It is illuminating to read Aly and Heim]s work in conjunction with contemporary history of technology and business... [I]t is a great service that Princeton University Press has made Aly and Heim's work readily accessible to American historians of business and technology.
Michael Allen, Technology and Culture
Michael Allen, Technology and Culture