Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Israel Gutman, Michael Berenbaum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Indiana University Press, 1998 - History - 638 pages

"This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets." —Walter Laqueur, The New Republic

"... a one-volume study of Auschwitz without peer in Holocaust literature." —Kirkus Reviews

"... a comprehensive portrait of the largest and most lethal of the Nazi death camps... serves as a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark against forgetting."Â —Publishers Weekly

More than a million people were murdered at Auschwitz, of whom 90 percent were Jews. Here leading scholars from around the world provide the first comprehensive account of what took place at Auschwitz.

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An immensely wide and deep collection of reports on the infrastructure, operation, population, and history of the Auschwitz death-camp complex. Contributions by 27 contributors from several countries ...

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In this work, leading scholars from the United States, Israel, Poland, and other European countries contribute essays about Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death camps, where more than a million ...

Contents

• Auschwitz An Overview: 5
• The System of Prisoner Exploitation: 34
• The Satellite Camps: 50
• The Number of Victims: 61
• Dimensions of Genocide: 77
• Auschwitz and the Ftnal Solution: 81
• A Site in Search of a Mission: 93
• Gas Chambers and Crematoria: 157
• The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz: 183
• The Plunder of Victims and Their Corpses: 246
• The Perpetrators: 267
• HistoricalSociological Profile of the Auschwitz SS: 271
• Rudolf Boss: 288
• Nazi Doctors: 301
• The Crimes of Josef Mengele: 317
• The Inmates: 359
• The Auschwitz Prisoner Administration: 363
• Hospitals: 379
• Women: 393
• Children: 412
• The Family Camp: 428
• Gypsies: 441
• Hungarian Jews: 456
• Auschwitz A Psychological Perspective: 469
• The Resistance: 483
• The Auschwitz Underground: 485
• Prisoner Escapes: 503
• Diaries of the Sonderkommando: 522
• Auschwitz and the Outside World: 535
• What Was Known and When: 539
• The Vrba and Wetzler Report: 553
• Why Auschwitz Wasnt Bombed: 569
• Postwar Peosecution of the Auschwitz SS: 588
• The Literature of Auschwitz: 601
• Index: 621

About the author

Yisrael Gutman is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Hebrew University and former Director of the Research Center, Yad Vashem.
Michael Berenbaum is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and former Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp; Holocaust Studies. History
• Authors: Israel Gutman, Michael Berenbaum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Editors: Israel Gutman, Michael Berenbaum
• Contributor: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 025320884X, 9780253208842
• Length: 638 pages
• Subjects: History / Holocaust