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The order of terror : the concentration camp / Wolfgang Sofsky ; translated by William Templer.
- Title
- The order of terror : the concentration camp / Wolfgang Sofsky ; translated by William Templer.
- Author
- Sofsky, Wolfgang
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
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| Text | Request in advance | DD256.5 .S5813 1997x | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 356 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Presents a sociological examination into the nature and structure of German concentration camps with a discussion of the uses of terror, violence, and absolute power.
- Uniform Title
- Ordnung des Terrors. English
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Alternative Title
- Ordnung des Terrors.
- Subjects
- World War > (1939-1945)
- Germany
- History
- Nazi concentration camps > Psychological aspects
- Internment camps
- Camps de concentration nazis > Aspect psychologique
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Camps d'internement > Allemagne
- Camps de concentration nazis > Allemagne
- 1939-1945
- Camps de concentration > Aspect psychologique
- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > Camps de concentration > Allemagne
- Camps de concentration > Allemagne > Histoire
- Derde Rijk
- Concentratiekampen
- Nazi concentration camps > Germany
- World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Germany
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei > Schutzstaffel > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-356).
- Language (note)
- Translation of: Die Ordnung des Terrors.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. I. Introduction. Entry ; Absolute power ; On the history of the concentration camps -- pt. II. Space and time. Zones and camp plans ; Boundary and gate ; The block ; Camp time ; Prisoner's time -- pt. III. Social structures. The SS personnel ; Classes and classifications ; Self-management and the gradation of power ; The aristocracy ; Mass, exchange, dissociation -- pt. IV. Work. Work and slavery ; The beneficiaries ; Work situations -- pt. V. Violence and death. The "Muselmann" ; Epidemics ; Terror punishment ; Violent excesses ; Selection ; The death factory -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780691006857
- 0691006857
- 069104354X
- 9780691043548
- LCCN
- 96019212
- OCLC
- 34658743
- SCSB-10516708
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library