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Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present

Author : Deborah Dwork
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393039337
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present written by Deborah Dwork and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present elucidates how the prewar ordinary town of Auschwitz became Germany's most lethal killing site step by step and in stages: a transformation wrought by human beings, mostly German and mostly male. Who were the men who conceived, created, and constructed the killing facility? What were they thinking as they inched their way to iniquity? Using the hundreds of architectural plans for the camp that the Germans, in their haste, forgot to destroy, as well as blueprints and papers in municipal, provincial, and federal archives, Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt show that the town of Auschwitz and the camp of that name were the centerpiece of Himmler's ambitious project to recover the German legacy of the Teutonic Knights and Frederick the Great in Nazi-ruled Poland. Analyzing the close ties between the 700-year history of the town and the five-year evolution of the concentration camp in its suburbs, Dwork and van Pelt offer an absolutely new and compelling interpretation of the origins and development of the death camp at Auschwitz. And drawing on oral histories of survivors, memoirs, depositions, and diaries, the authors explore the ever more murderous impact of these changes on the inmates' daily lives.

The Case for Auschwitz

Author : Robert Jan van Pelt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253028841
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Auschwitz written by Robert Jan van Pelt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist, Fred Leuchter, which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court.

Holocaust a History

Author : Deborah Dwork
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325249
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust a History written by Deborah Dwork and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrivaled in scope, "Holocaust" is a story of all Europe, of the vast sweep of events in which this great atrocity was rooted, from the Middle Ages to the modern era.

Auschwitz

Author : Luis Ferreiro
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789213311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Auschwitz written by Luis Ferreiro and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people—mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others—lost their lives. More than 280 objects and images from the exhibition are illustrated herein. Drawn from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and other collections around the world, they range from the intimate (such as victims’ family snapshots and personal belongings) to the immense (an actual surviving barrack from the Auschwitz III–Monowitz satellite camp); all are eloquent in their testimony. An authoritative yet accessible text weaves the stories behind these artifacts into an encompassing history of Auschwitz—from a Polish town at the crossroads of Europe, to the dark center of the Holocaust, to a powerful site of remembrance. Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away. is an essential volume for everyone who is interested in history and its lessons.

Denying History

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520944097
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Denying History written by Michael Shermer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust "revisionists." In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event. This edition is expanded with a new chapter and epilogue examining current, shockingly mainstream revisionism.

Flight from the Reich

Author : Deborah Dwork
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393062298
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Flight from the Reich written by Deborah Dwork and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, groundbreaking work that provides the definitive answer to the persistent question: Why didn't more Jews flee Nazi Europe?

The Crime of My Very Existence

Author : Prof. Michael Berkowitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940687
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Crime of My Very Existence written by Prof. Michael Berkowitz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crime of My Very Existence investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews, and extending into postwar Europe.

Melting Point

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435713214
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Melting Point written by Roger Collins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandpa, what did you do in World War II? Albert Stohl is an old man with a hidden past. He was at Auschwitz. But, not as an inmate. Now he has to tell his story to his daughter and grandchildren. What will they think? How will he explain what he did and why? Will they ever see him the same way again? If you've ever said to yourself "I couldn't have been a perpetrator of the Holocaust," you need to read this book. And then ask yourself. what would YOU do? Well researched and technically detailed, the book takes you behind-the-scenes and into the machinery of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, as told from the viewpoint of an engineer. A classic historical fiction tale of an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances. About The Author Roger Collins is a software engineer living near Bodega Bay, California. An avid reader of history, Melting Point is his first published work.

Children with a Star

Author : Deborah Dwork
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300054477
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Children with a Star written by Deborah Dwork and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on oral histories, diaries, letters, photographs, and archival records, the author presents a look at the lives of the children who lived and died during the Holocaust

Leap Into Darkness

Author : Leo Bretholz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leap Into Darkness written by Leo Bretholz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1999-09-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal). Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing war-torn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in attics, cellars, anywhere that offered a few more seconds of safety. First he swam the River Sauer at the German-Belgian border. Later he climbed the Alps on feet so battered they froze to his socks--only to be turned back at the Swiss border. He crawled out from under the barbed wire of a French holding camp, and hid in a village in the Pyrenees while gendarmes searched it. And in the dark hours of one November morning, he escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz. Leap into Darkness is the sweeping memoir of one Jewish boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.

The Unwanted

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524733199
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Unwanted written by Michael Dobbs and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Author : Jonathan Frankel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353250
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by Jonathan Frankel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism? Or were the Nazi policies simply a wild mutation of history, not necessarily connected to the past? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? This latest volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, edited by internationally known scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. The works in this volume are diverse in scope and opinion, ranging from general philosophical discourses to detailed analyses of specific events, and often reflecting the divergent ideologies and methods of the contributors. But each adds to the whole, and the result is a fascinating panorama that is sure to be indispensable to all students and scholars of the subject.

KL

Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429943726
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book KL written by Nikolaus Wachsmann and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “deeply researched, groundbreaking” first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps (Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker). In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called “the gray zone.” In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system. Closely examining life and death inside the camps, and adopting a wider lens to show how the camp system was shaped by changing political, legal, social, economic, and military forces, Wachsmann produces a unified picture of the Nazi regime and its camps that we have never seen before. A boldly ambitious work of deep importance, KL is destined to be a classic in the history of the twentieth century. Praise for KL A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015 A Kirkus Reviews Best History Book of 2015 Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category “[A] monumental study . . . a work of prodigious scholarship . . . with agonizing human texture and extraordinary detail . . . Wachsmann makes the unimaginable palpable. That is his great achievement.” —Roger Cohen, The New York Times Book Review “Wachsmann’s meticulously detailed history is essential for many reasons, not the least of which is his careful documentation of Nazi Germany’s descent from greater to even greater madness. To the persistent question, “How did it happen?,” Wachsmann supplies voluminous answers.” —Earl Pike, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

A Companion to Nazi Germany

Author : Shelley Baranowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118936884
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Nazi Germany written by Shelley Baranowski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining the movement? Were the German people sympathetic to Nazi ideology, or were they radicalized by social manipulation and powerful propaganda? Was the “Final Solution” the motivation for the Third Reich’s rise to power, or simply the outcome? A Companion to Nazi Germany addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the Nazi Party’s emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From the theory and context that gave rise to the movement, through its structural, cultural, economic, and social impacts, to the era’s lasting legacy, this book offers an in-depth examination of modern history’s most infamous reign. Assesses the historiography of Nazism and the prehistory of the regime Provides deep insight into labor, education, research, and home life amidst the Third Reich’s ideological imperatives Describes how the Third Reich affected business, the economy, and the culture, including sports, entertainment, and religion Delves into the social militarization in the lead-up to war, and examines the social and historical complexities that allowed genocide to take place Shows how modern-day Germany confronts and deals with its recent history Today’s political climate highlights the critical need to understand how radical nationalist movements gain an audience, then followers, then power. While historical analogy can be a faulty basis for analyzing current events, there is no doubt that examining the parallels can lead to some important questions about the present. Exploring key motivations, environments, and cause and effect, this book provides essential perspective as radical nationalist movements have once again reemerged in many parts of the world.

The Coming of the Holocaust

Author : Peter Kenez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110743596X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Coming of the Holocaust written by Peter Kenez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez demonstrates that the occurrence of the Holocaust was not predetermined as a result of modern history but instead was the result of contingencies. He shows that three preconditions had to exist for the genocide to take place: modern anti-Semitism, meaning Jews had to become economically and culturally successful in the post-French Revolution world to arouse fear rather than contempt; an extremist group possessing a deeply held, irrational, and profoundly inhumane worldview had to take control of the machinery of a powerful modern state; and the context of a major war with mass killings. The book also discusses the correlations between social and historical differences in individual countries regarding the success of the Germans in their effort to exterminate Jews.

The Evidence Room

Author : Anne Bordeleau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487533608
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Evidence Room written by Anne Bordeleau and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned and award-winning historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt's The Evidence Room is a chilling exploration of the role architecture played in constructing Auschwitz - arguably the Nazis' most horrifying facility. The Evidence Room is both a companion piece to, and an elaboration of, an exhibit at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, based on van Pelt's authoritative testimony against Holocaust denial in a 2000 libel suit argued before the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

The Business of Genocide

Author : Michael Thad Allen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860018
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Genocide written by Michael Thad Allen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The Business of Genocide powerfully contradicts the assumption that the SS forced slavery upon the German economy, demonstrating that instead industrialists actively sought out the Business Administration Main Office as a valued partner in the war economy. Moreover, while the bureaucrats who oversaw Holocaust operations have often been seen as technocrats or simple "cogs in the machinery," the book reveals their ideological dedication, even fanatical devotion, to slavery and genocide in the name of National Socialism.