Architects of annihilation
Subtitle: Auschwitz and the logic of destruction
By: Götz Aly and Susanne Heim ; translated by A.G Blunden.
Contributors: Heim, Susanne, 1955-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
Work titles: Vordenker der Vernichtung.
Description: "For Hitler' thinkers - the young and career-minded demographers, geographers, economists, civil servants and academics in the service of the Third Reich - Europe was a drawing board on which to work out their grand designs. They were encouraged to rationalise production methods, standardise products, introduce an international division of labour, and modernise and simplify social structures.

Ultimately this would lead to the sinister 'adjusting' of the ratio between what were perceived as 'productive' and 'unproductive' population groups.".

"Architects of Annihilation is an investigation into the records left by these thinkers, tracing the period from the Crystal Night Pogrom of 1938 to the fully operating gas chambers in Auschwitz, 1942. During this time, the unthinkable technocratic solutions to the problems of an expanding wartime Germany were nevertheless thought and implemented."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published in Germany, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references.