Architects of Annihilation by Susanne Heim - ISBN: 9781842126707
Paperback
A study of the numerous academics and technocrats without whom Hitler’s crude Anti-Semitism could never have been translated into a systematic policy of genocide.

Architects of Annihilation

Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    1 March 2004

Summary

Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the set of demographers, economists, geographers and planners in the period between the disorderly excesses of the November 1938 pogrom and the fully-effective operation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz in summer 1942. The authors, both journalists and historians, argue that this group of intellectuals, often combining academic, civil service and Party functions made an indispensable contribution to the planning and execution of the Final S…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781842126707
ISBN-10:1842126709
Author:Susanne Heim, Gotz Aly
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:1 March 2004
Weight:276g
Dimensions:201mm x 169mm x 27mm
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Critics Review

Gotz Aly is one of the most able and exciting young German historians working on the Third Reich – Niall FergusonA revelation … Aly and Heim marshal their facts meticulously … there is never any question of stopping, of drawing breath, before the chronicle is over * OBSERVER *This is an important, honest, unsensational, thought-provoking book * DAILY TELEGRAPH *

About The Author

Susanne Heim

Gotz Aly and Susanne Heim are young journalists and historians living in Germany.

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