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    Auschwitz: A History

    By Sybille Steinbacher

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    At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend, and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends.

    In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to anyone on earth in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the Second World War. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 21, 2013
    ISBN9780062296191
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      A concise and thus the contents all the more appalling for its brevity of factual account of the whole process by which the seemingly cultivated, civilized Germany of the 1930s-40s descended into a depraved, genocidal nightmare perpetrated on Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies etc. made possible by the most mundane (yet egregiously vile) series of steps that created, organized and ran the purpose-built centre of Nazi slaughterhouse mentality that was AUSCHWITZ. A Concentration Camp for death by Gas Chamber, Forced Labour, Execution etc. for the inmates made up of Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies & POWs.The author's book concludes with a very brief chapter highlighting the ghastly attempts of recent decades to retell in a better light and/or deny (the "LIE") that Auschwitz was an extermination camp.