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No symbol of the Holocaust is more profound than Auschwitz. Yet the sheer, crushing number of murders - over 1,200,000 - the overwhelming scale of the crime, and the vast, abandoned site of ruined chimneys and rusting barbed wire isolate Auschwitz from us. How could an ordinary town become a site of such terror? Why was this particular town chosen? Who conceived, created, and constructed the camp? This unprecedented history reveals how an unremarkable Polish village was transformed into a killing field. Using architectural designs and planning documents recently discovered in Poland and Russia and over 200 illustrations, Auschwitz tells how this town became the epicenter of the Final Solution.
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Auschwitz, Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- Auschwitz
- Subtitle
- 1270 to the Present
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 443
- ISBN10
- 0300067550
- ISBN13
- 9780300067552
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, Technology & Engineering, Germany, Military Fiction, Wars, World War II, 20th century, Military, Europe, History of Europe, Judaica, Holocaust, Jewish Literature, Poland
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- No symbol of the Holocaust is more profound than Auschwitz. Yet the sheer, crushing number of murders - over 1,200,000 - the overwhelming scale of the crime, and the vast, abandoned site of ruined chimneys and rusting barbed wire isolate Auschwitz from us. How could an ordinary town become a site of such terror? Why was this particular town chosen? Who conceived, created, and constructed the camp? This unprecedented history reveals how an unremarkable Polish village was transformed into a killing field. Using architectural designs and planning documents recently discovered in Poland and Russia and over 200 illustrations, Auschwitz tells how this town became the epicenter of the Final Solution.