The Order of Terror

by Sofsky, Wolfgang; Templer, William

• ISBN13: 9780691043548
• ISBN10: 069104354X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Bases on historical documents and the reports of survivors, this book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social solidarity, disrupted the very ideas of time and space, perverted human work into torture, and unleashed innumerable atrocities.

Author Biography

Wolfgang Sofsky is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gottingen.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Entry	p. 3
Absolute Power	p. 16
On the History of the Concentration Camps	p. 28
Space and Time	p. 45
Zones and Camp Plans	p. 47
Boundary and Gate	p. 55
The Block	p. 65
Camp Time	p. 73
Prisoner's Time	p. 82
Social Structures	p. 95
The SS Personnel	p. 97
Classes and Classifications	p. 117
Self-Management and the Gradation of Power	p. 130
The Aristocracy	p. 145
Mass, Exchange, Dissociation	p. 153
Work	p. 165
Work and Slavery	p. 167
The Beneficiaries	p. 173
Work Situations	p. 185
Violence and Death	p. 197
The Muselmann	p. 199
Epidemics	p. 206
Terror Punishment	p. 214
Violent Excesses	p. 223
Selection	p. 241
The Death Factory	p. 259
Epilogue	p. 276
Selected Glossary and Abbreviations	p. 283
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography	p. 289
Notes	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 343
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