
Auschwitz: A History
$7.28
Best Sellers Rank: 2026329 in Books
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0060825820
Language : English
Publisher : Harper Perennial; 1st edition
Publication Date : August 15, 2006
Pages : 176
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz, a name that has become synonymous with evil. Here the utopian twentieth-century dream of employing science and technology to improve and protect human life was inverted from the latter part of the 1930s through the end of the Second World War, as the same systems were manipulated in the cause of efficient mass slaughter. Historian Sybille Steinbacher's powerful and eminently important book details Auschwitz's birth, growth, and horrible mutation into a dreadful city. How it came to be and how what followed was allowed to occur is a story that everyone needs to understand and remember.