The business of genocide
Subtitle: the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps
By: Michael Thad Allen.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt -- History; World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany; Genocide -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Forced labor -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Origins of the SS: The Ideology Is the Modern Organization 19 Modern Men: The New Administrative Officers of the SS 21 The Fiihrer Principle 29 Heinrich Himmler's Favored Industrial Projects 31 "We Are No Pencil Pushers!": Theodor Eicke's Total Institution and the Primacy of Policing 36 Origins of the SS Construction Corps 48 2 A Political Economy of Misery: The SS "Fihrer" Corporation 57 The German Earth and Stone Works 58 Profits from Women's Work 72 Opportunistic Idealists and the Shady Legality of SS Industry 78 The "Organic Corporation" 92 3 Manufacturing a New Order 97 The "Final Form" of the German Commercial Operations 107 The Venality of Evil: Modern Mismanagement of Slave Labor 112 4 Engineering a New Order 128 A High Degree of Order? 129 Odilo Globocnik: Handcrafting the New Order 133 Hans Kammler: Modern Engineering in the SS 140 The "Great Industrial Tasks" of the SS 148 Engineering Ideology 158 5 My Newly Erected House: Slavery in the Modern War Economy 165 Industry and Ideology 167 The Rise of Albert Speer 171 Putting the SS's House in Order for Total War 177 The Armaments Ministry's First Pilot Projects 190 6 The Hour of the Engineer 202 Rehearsals 204 The SS and the Rocket Team 208 Mittelwerk and Dora-Mittelbau 214 Less than Slaves: Labor at Dora-Mittelbau 222 The Fighter Staff 232 7 Total War and the End in Rubble 240 Modern Management and Its Discontents 252 The End 260.