Auschwitz and the Germans: history, knowledge, and memory
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Auschwitz and the Germans: history, knowledge, and memory
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number943.086/0098
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08384i
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Exeter, Devon, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University of Exeter Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2005
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp147-165
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780859898065
NotesArticle from the book 'Nazism, war and genocide' p147-165
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
An account of the development of Auschwitz during the war - as a concentration camp, and as a site of economic activity. Challenging the popular image of Auschwitz as a sealed-off space, an isolated centre of unimaginable horror, Frei reminds us that it was located on territory fully integrated into the German Reich before 1945. The ever-expanding complex of camps, factories etc. thus became home to thousands of SS men and their families, and also to German administrators, planners businessmen and others