Auschwitz : a history
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- ISBN: 0060825820
- ISBN: 9780060825829
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Physical Description
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167 pages : illustrations, maps - Edition 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Publisher New York ; Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2006.
- Copyright ©2005
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: Auschwitz: Geschichte und Nachgeschichte. "This translation edition was first published in Great Britain by Penguin Books in 2005"--T.p. verso. "An Ecco book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-165) and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 16.95 |
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Auschwitz : A History
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz, a name that has become synonymous with evil. Here the utopian twentieth-century dream of employing science and technology to improve and protect human life was inverted from the latter part of the 1930s through the end of the Second World War, as the same systems were manipulated in the cause of efficient mass slaughter. Historian Sybille Steinbacher's powerful and eminently important book details Auschwitz's birth, growth, and horrible mutation into a dreadful city. How it came to be and how what followed was allowed to occur is a story that everyone needs to understand and remember.