| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 549 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-536) and index. |
| Contents |
Author's rationale -- The camp and its jargon -- The history of the extermination camp -- Numbers -- The prisoners -- Under the power of the camp -- The Muselmann -- The inmate and death -- Music and games -- Canada -- The VIPs -- Jewish VIPs -- Creating accomplices -- The Sonderkommando -- The inmate infirmary -- Those born in Auschwitz -- Resistance -- The jailers -- The guards -- People, not devils -- The commandant -- SS leaders -- Physicians in the SS -- Dr. Wirths -- Subordinates of the SS leaders -- Sexuality -- Reactions of human nature -- Frank and Pestek -- Civilians in Auschwitz -- Afterward -- Inmates after liberation -- SS members after the war -- Conclusion and warning. |
| Summary |
People in Auschwitz is very different from other works on the most infamous of Nazi annihilation centers. Langbein's account is a scrupulously scholarly achievement interwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military personnel, and official documents. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
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Auschwitz (Pologne : Camp de concentration) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Menschen in Auschwitz. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003052205
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Langbein, Hermann, 1912-1995. Menschen in Auschwitz. English. People in Auschwitz. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ©2004 0807828165 (DLC) 2003020485 (OCoLC)53045244 |
| ISBN |
0807863637 (electronic book) |
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9780807863633 (electronic book) |
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0807828165 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807828168 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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