The Twisted Road to Auschwitz, 9780252061479
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Since the publication of Karl Schleunes‘ The Twisted Road To Auschwitz in 1970 an almost inconceivably broad variety of scholarly books and articles has dealt with why and how the Holocaust came into being and what kind of mechanisms lay at the bottom of the unimaginable cruelties committed by the N…

The Twisted Road to Auschwitz

nazi policy toward german jews, 1933-39

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    14 January 1990

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Summary

“There is no single phenomenon in our time so important for us to understand as the one which identified itself in Germany during the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s as National Socialism. By the time this movement was swept from the stage it had destroyed the lives of at least thirty million and perhaps as many as forty million people… . The realization that some men will construct a factory in which to kill other men raises the gravest questions about man himself. We have entered an age which we cann…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780252061479
ISBN-10:0252061470
Author:Karl A. Schleunes
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Imprint:University of Illinois Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Edition:Illini Books ed
Release Date:14 January 1990
Weight:513g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 25mm
About The Author

Karl A. Schleunes

Karl A. Schleunes is a retired member of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Schooling and Society: The Politics of Education in Prussia and Bavaria, 1750–1900. Hans Mommsen was a professor emeritus of modern history at Ruhr University Bochum. His books include The Realisation of the Unthinkable and The Nazi Regime and the Annihilation of the Jews in Europe. He died in 2015.

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