Auschwitz - A History

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.

Product details

• Authors: Sybille Steinbacher
• Assisted by: Shaun Whiteside (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780141987484
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198748-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Religionsgeschichte, Deutschland, Polen, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte der Religion, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus, Auschwitz, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Shoah, Holocaust, Endlösung, Deutschland: Nationalsozialismus (1933 - 1945), Deutsche Geschichte / Nationalsozialismus, Judenverfolgung / Holocaust, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Konzentrationslager / Auschwitz, IAN KERSHAW; HITLER; THIRD REICH; RICHARD EVANS; PRIMO LEVI; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; HOLOCAUST; LAURENCE REES; THOMAS HARDING