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The business of genocide : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps / Michael Thad Allen.

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An exploration of the bureaucrats behind the Nazi slave labour camps. It 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.

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Main Author: Allen, Michael Thad
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. > SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Nazi concentration camps > Germany.
Genocide > Germany > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Forced labor > Germany > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. > SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt.
World War (1939-1945)
Forced labor.
Genocide.
Germany.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Origins of the SS; 2. A Political Economy of Misery; 3. Manufacturing A New Order; 4. Engineering a New Order; 5. My Newly Erected House; 6. The Hour of the Engineer; 7. Total War and the End in Rubble; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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