The Business of Genocide: The Ss, Slave Labor, and the Concentration CampsDuring 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 o |
Contents
Origins of the SS The Ideology Is the Modern Organization | 19 |
The New Administrative Officers of the SS | 21 |
The Führer Principle | 29 |
Heinrich Himmlers Favored Industrial Projects | 31 |
Theodor Eickes Total Institution and the Primacy of Policing | 36 |
Origins of the SS Construction Corps | 48 |
A Political Economy of Misery The SS Führer Corporation | 57 |
The German Earth and Stone Works | 58 |
My Newly Erected House Slavery in the Modern War Economy | 165 |
Industry and Ideology | 167 |
The Rise of Albert Speer | 171 |
Putting the SSs House in Order for Total War | 177 |
The Armaments Ministrys First Pilot Projects | 190 |
The Hour of the Engineer | 202 |
Rehearsals | 204 |
The SS and the Rocket Team | 208 |
Profits from Womens Work | 72 |
Opportunistic Idealists and the Shady Legality of SS Industry | 78 |
The Organic Corporation | 92 |
Manufacturing a New Order | 97 |
The Final Form of the German Commercial Operations | 107 |
Modern Mismanagement of Slave Labor | 112 |
Engineering a New Order | 128 |
A High Degree of Order? | 129 |
Handcrafting the New Order | 133 |
Modern Engineering in the SS | 140 |
The Great Industrial Tasks of the SS | 148 |
Engineering Ideology | 158 |
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Page 4 - This is like an automatic factory, like a flour mill connected with some bakery. At one end you put in a Jew who still has some property, a factory, or a shop, or a bank account, and he goes through the building from counter to counter, from office to office, and comes out at the other end without any money, without any rights, with only a passport on which it says: 'You must leave the country within a fortnight. Otherwise you will go to a concentration camp.
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