Business of Genocide.
Title:
Business of Genocide.
Author:
Allen, Michael Thad.
ISBN:
9780807860014
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (392 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1. Origins of the SS -- Modern Men: The New Administrative Officers of the SS -- The Fuhrer Principle -- Heinrich Himmler's Favored Industrial Projects -- "We Are No Pencil Pushers!": Theodor Eicke's Total Institution and the Primacy of Policing -- Origins of the SS Construction Corps -- Notes -- 2. A Political Economy of Misery -- The German Earth and Stone Works -- Profits from Women's Work -- Opportunistic Idealists and the Shady Legality of SS Industry -- The "Organic Corporation" -- Notes -- 3. Manufacturing A New Order -- The "Final Form" of the German Commercial Operations -- The Venality of Evil: Modern Mismanagement of Slave Labor -- Notes -- 4. Engineering a New Order -- A High Degree of Order? -- Odilo Globocnik: Handcrafting the New Order -- Hans Kammler: Modern Engineering in the SS -- The "Great Industrial Tasks" of the SS -- Engineering Ideology -- Notes -- 5. My Newly Erected House -- Industry and Ideology -- The Rise of Albert Speer -- Putting the SS's House in Order for Total War -- The Armaments Ministry's First Pilot Projects -- Notes -- 6. The Hour of the Engineer -- Rehearsals -- The SS and the Rocket Team -- MittleWerk and Dora-Mittelbau -- Less than Slaves: Labor at Dora-Mittelbau -- The Fighter Staff -- Notes -- 7. Total War and the End in Rubble -- Modern Management and Its Discontents -- The End -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
During 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 operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included designing and constructing the concentration camps and gas chambers, building secret underground weapons factories, and brokering slave laborers to private companies such as Volkswagen and IG Farben. The Business of Genocide powerfully contradicts the assumption that the SS forced slavery upon the German economy, demonstrating that instead industrialists actively sought out the Business Administration Main Office as a valued partner in the war economy. Moreover, while the bureaucrats who oversaw Holocaust operations have often been seen as technocrats or simple "cogs in the machinery," the book reveals their ideological dedication, even fanatical devotion, to slavery and genocide in the name of National Socialism.During 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 across all of German-occupied Europe. The whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Michael Thad Allen powerfully contradicts the assumption that the SS forced slavery upon the German economy, demonstrating that instead industrialists actively sought out the Business Administration Main Office as a valued partner in the war economy. Moreover, while the bureaucrats who oversaw Holocaust operations have often been seen
as technocrats or simple "cogs in the machinery," this book reveals their ideological dedication, even fanatical devotion, to slavery and genocide in the name of National Socialism.-->.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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