Sofsky The Order of Terror

The Concentration Camp
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2218-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Wolfgang Sofsky is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Göttingen. The Order of Terror was awarded the prestigious 1993 Geschwister-Scholl Prize. The book has also been published in France and Italy. Sofsky is the author of four other books in German about power, organization, and the anthropology of violence. William Templer is a widely published translator of German and Hebrew and teaches on the staff of Preslavsky University, Shumen, Bulgaria.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sofsky, Wolfgang

Weitere Mitwirkende

Templer, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Pt. I Introduction 1

1 Entry 3

2 Absolute Power 16

3 On the History of the Concentration Camps 28

Pt. II Space and Time 45

4 Zones and Camp Plans 47

5 Boundary and Gate 55

6 The Block 65

7 Camp Time 73

8 Prisoner's Time 82

Pt. III Social Structures 95

9 The SS Personnel 97

10 Classes and Classifications 117

11 Self-Management and the Gradation of Power 130

12 The Aristocracy 145

13 Mass, Exchange, Dissociation 153

Pt. IV Work 165

14 Work and Slavery 167

15 The Beneficiaries 173

16 Work Situations 185

Pt. V Violence and Death 197

17 The Muselmann 199

18 Epidemics 206

19 Terror Punishment 214

20 Violent Excesses 223

21 Selection 241

22 The Death Factory 259

Epilogue 276

Selected Glossary and Abbreviations 283

Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography 289

Notes 291

Bibliography 343

Über Autor(innen)

Wolfgang Sofsky is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Göttingen. The Order of Terror was awarded the prestigious 1993 Geschwister-Scholl Prize. The book has also been published in France and Italy. Sofsky is the author of four other books in German about power, organization, and the anthropology of violence. William Templer is a widely published translator of German and Hebrew and teaches on the staff of Preslavsky University, Shumen, Bulgaria.