The business of genocide : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps

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Label

The business of genocide : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps

Title remainder

the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps

Statement of responsibility

Michael Thad Allen

Creator

• Allen, Michael Thad

Subject

• Genocide -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany
• Forced labor -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Germany
• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"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." "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," Allen reveals their ideological dedication, even fanatical devotion, to slavery and genocide in the name of National Socialism."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.53/18

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DD253.6

LC item number

.A65 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography