Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps
Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
ISBN: 978-1-59451-094-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners who were willing to go into exile and the help of friends on the outside who helped him obtain a visa. He fled to Sweden before coming to the United States in 1941. In 1943, he completed The Society of Terror, based on his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald. He embarked on a long career teaching sociology and statistics at universities in the United States and later in Vienna until his death in September 2001. After liberation, the horrific images of the extermination camps abounded from Dachau, Buchenwald, and other places. Neurath's chillingly factual discussion of his experience as an inmate and his astute observations of the conditions and the social structures in Dachau and Buchenwald captivate the reader, not only because of their authenticity, but also because of the work's proximity to the events and the absence of influence of later interpretations. His account is unique also because of the exceptional links Neurath establishes between personal experience and theoretical reflection, the persistent oscillation between the distanced and sober view of the scientist and that of the prisoner.
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Part 1 The Scene; Chapter 1 From Civil War to Organized Terror; Chapter 2 First Impressions; Chapter 3 The Layout; Chapter 4 A Day in a Concentration Camp; Chapter 5 The Daily Routine; Chapter 6 The Prisoners; Chapter 7 The Guards; Chapter 8 Crime and Punishment; Chapter 9 Differences; Chapter 10 Kaleidoscope; Part 2 The Society; Chapter 11 The Task; Chapter 12 Power; Chapter 13 Cooperation; Chapter 14 The Moor Express; Chapter 15 Justice; Chapter 16 Property Rights; Chapter 17 Corruption; Chapter 18 Conflict; Chapter 19 Why Don’t They Hit Back?; Addendum: Statement on the Validity of the Observations That Form the Basis of the Dissertation; Afterword, Christian Fleck, Albert Müller, Nico Stehr;
