The Order of Terror : the Concentration Camp.

Sofsky, Wolfgang,

The Order of Terror : the Concentration Camp. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2001. - 1 online resource (369 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents.

During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned 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 Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down.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 so



9781400822188


Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel --History.


Nazi concentration camps--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.


Electronic Books.

DD256 / .O734 2001