Architects of annihilation: Auschwitz and the logic of destruction

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. This book is an investigation into the records left by these thinkers, tracing the period from Kristallnacht to the fully operating gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1942