Auschwitz
by Sybille Steinbacher, Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
ISBN-10: 014102142X
ISBN-13: 9780141021423
$12.43
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Penguin Books
Published on
Jan 17, 2005
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
4.37x0.51x7.13 Inches
Weight
1.65 Pounds
About the Book
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.