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Hitler's Slave Lords: The Business of Forced Labour in Occupied Europe

Door Michael Thad Allen

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#405042-ZD38
Titel	Hitler's Slave Lords: The Business of Forced Labour in Occupied Europe
Auteur	Allen, Michael Thad
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Stroud : Termpus Publications Limited
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0752429205
ISBN13	9780752429205
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included designing and constructing the concentration camps and gas chambers, building secret underground weapons factories, and brokering slave laborers to private companies such as Volkswagen and IG Farben. The business of genocide contradicts the assumption that the SS forced slavery upon the German economy, demonstrating that instead industrialists activel... (Lees verder)y sought out the Business Administration Main Office as a valued partner in the war economy. Moreover, while the bureaucrats who oversaw Holocaust operations have often been seen as technocrats or simple cogs in the machinery, the book reveals their ideological dedication, even fanatical devotion, to slavery and genocide in the name of National Socialism.
Pagina's	352
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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