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The Order of Terror: Concentration Camp by Wolfgang Sofsky (Hardback, 1997)

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A book that will fundamentally enrich our kwledge of human nature, the organization of power, and the execution of terror. --Der SpiegelDuring the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the rewned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, terror labor, and the business- like extermination of human beings.Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social solidarity, disrupted the very ideas of time and space, perverted human work into torture, and unleashed innumerable atrocities. As a result, daily life was reduced to a permanent struggle for survival, even as the meaning of self-preservation was extinguished. Sofsky takes us from the searing, unforgettable image of the Muselmann--Auschwitz jargon for the walking dead --to chronicles of epidemics, terror punishments, selections, and torture.The society of the camp was dominated by the S.S. and a system of graduated and forced collaboration which turned selected victims into accomplices of terror. Sofsky shows that the S.S. was t a rigid bureaucracy, but a system with ample room for automy. The S.S. demanded individual initiative of its members. Consequently, although they were t required to torment or murder prisoners, officers and guards often exploited their freedom to do so--in passing or on a whim, with cause, or without.The order of terror described by Sofskyculminates in the organized murder of millions of European Jews and Gypsies in the death-factories of Auschwitz and Treblinka. By the end of this book, Sofsky shows that the German concentration camp system cant be seen as a temporary lapse into barbarism. Instead, it must be conceived as a product of modern civilization, where institutionalized, state-run human cruelty has w become possible with or without the mobilizing feelings of hatred.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
069104354x
ISBN-13
9780691043548
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95908292

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Author
Wolfgang Sofsky
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook

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Weight
714g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
New Jersey
Spine
29mm
Content Note
3 Line Illus. 4 Tables
Translated by
William Templer
Out-Of-Print Date
08/10/2001
Date of Publication
24/01/1997
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Regional History

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