Eichmann and the HolocaustThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was 'only following orders'. |
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... centres in Auschwitz and Chelmno , in Majdanek and Belzek , in Treblinka and So- bibor , must actually have appeared the ' Charitable Foun- dations for Institutional Care ' that the experts in mercy death called them . Moreover , from ...
... centres in Auschwitz and Chelmno , in Majdanek and Belzek , in Treblinka and So- bibor , must actually have appeared the ' Charitable Foun- dations for Institutional Care ' that the experts in mercy death called them . Moreover , from ...
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... centres for refugees from the countryside , which was already occupied by the Red Army . There he was accosted by a woman who showed him a varicose vein she had had for years but wanted to have treated now , because she had time . ' I ...
... centres for refugees from the countryside , which was already occupied by the Red Army . There he was accosted by a woman who showed him a varicose vein she had had for years but wanted to have treated now , because she had time . ' I ...
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... centres in the East , depending on their relative capacity at the moment ; when a trainload of Jews arrived at a centre , the strong among them were selected for work , often operating the extermination machinery , all others were ...
... centres in the East , depending on their relative capacity at the moment ; when a trainload of Jews arrived at a centre , the strong among them were selected for work , often operating the extermination machinery , all others were ...
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