People in Auschwitz
Contributors: Henry Friedlander (Foreword)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780807828168
Subjects: European history: Second World War; The Holocaust; Holocaust; History; History - General History; World War, 1939-1945; History: World; Europe; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal Memoirs; Jewish/Israeli/Holocaust Studies; Biography; History/Continental Europe; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Concentratiekampen.; Prisoners and prisons, German; gtt
First sentence: In a sociological study of the concentration camps, H.G. Adler, who had first-hand experience of them, writes: "The problems of Nazism represent nothing but an extreme-admittedly insanely extreme-special case of conditions or possibilities that are encountered in modern society all over the world, at least latently and often manifestly...Cruelty and deindividualization are what make a concentration camp possible; both have to be systematically fostered for it to exist and become what it is: a place of absolute and ultimate subjugation beyond the bounds of a life worth living."