From Schmelt Camp to Little Auschwitz: Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust
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- West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, 2024
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- Table of Contents:
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- FROM SCHMELT CAMP to ""LITTLE AUSCHWITZ
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- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Building the "Tower of Babel": The Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke as a Beneficiary of Jewish Forced Labor
- 2. Establishing a Reign of Terror: The First Schmelt Camp in Blechhammer, March-September 1942
- 3. A New Camp, New Prisoners, New Dimensions of Brutality
- 4. "Rationalization" or Annihilation? The Camp at the Intersection of Two Conflicting Policies in 1943
- 5. Blechhammer's New Role in the Holocaust in Eastern Upper Silesia.
- 6. Becoming "Little Auschwitz": The Takeover of Blechhammer in April 1944
- 7. Life Under the SS
- 8. Exposure to Allied Bombings and the Exacerbation of Violence in Summer 1944
- 9. Hangings Without a Witness? On the Vicissitudes of Relating Traumatic Memories
- 10. "A Cynical Joke": Enforced Theatrical and Musical Performances
- 11. The Massacres of January 1945
- 12. The Death March
- Epilogue: Surviving Blechhammer
- A Look at Collective and Individual Strategies
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Unpublished Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
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- English
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- Item content: English
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- Print version: From Schmelt Camp to Little Auschwitz [by Barth, S.] (West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press,c2024 — ISBN 9781612499543)
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 1 online resource (363 pages)
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- D804.3 .B378 2024eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781612499574
1612499570 - OCLC Numbers:
- 1441723809