Architects of death : the family who engineered the Holocaust
Bartlett, Karen2018
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Place reservation for Architects of death : the family who engineered the HolocaustTopf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height 66 Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation - 46 of which were at Auschwitz. In five years the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz had been the engine of the holocaust, facilitating the murder and incineration of more than one million people, most of them Jews. Yet such a spectacularly evil feat of engineering was designed not by the Nazi SS, but a small respectable firm of German engineers: the owners and engineers of J.A. Topf and Sons. These were not Nazi sadists, but men who were playboys and the sons of train drivers. They were driven not by ideology, but by love affairs, personal ambition and bitter personal rivalries to create the ultimate human killing and disposal machines.
Main title:
Architects of death : the family who engineered the Holocaust / Karen Bartlett.
Author:
Bartlett, Karen, author
Imprint:
London : Biteback Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
xvii, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781785900426 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318940.531
LC class:
D804.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1953894
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