Chelmno and the Holocaust
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-84885-722-3 (ISBN)
As the first extermination camp established by the Nazi regime and the prototype of the single-purpose death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec, the Chelmno death camp stands as a crucial but largely unexplored element of the Holocaust. This book is the first comprehensive work in any language to detail all aspects of the camp's history, organisation and operations and to remedy the dearth of information in the Holocaust literature about Chelmno, which served as a template for the Nazis' 'Final Solution'. The book reveals the mobile killing squad that employed the world's first gas van to terminate the lives of mentally-ill patients and the assembly-line procedure employed in the camp - from a deceptive welcoming speech to the gassing of victims in special vans. Based on over 20 years of thorough research, this work contains first-hand accounts and photographs never before published and is a vital contribution to a painfully neglected but critically important chapter in the history of the Holocaust.
Patrick Montague received a Fulbright Scholarship to fund his research on the history of Chelmno - this book arises from his research.
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Christopher R. Browning
Introduction
1. Prologue
The Euthanasia Program
Mobile Killing Operations
The Turning Point
2. Extermination: The first period (1941-1943)
Establishing The Camp
The Transports
The Mansion: Arrival, Murder, Plunder
The Forest Camp
Resumption of Transports
Escapes
First Liquidation of The Camp
3. Extermination: The second period (1944-1945)
Re-Establishing The Camp
A New Killing Procedure
Final Liquidation of The Camp
4. Epilogue
Chelmno: 1945 to the Present
The Number of Victims
Conclusion and Reflection
Appendices
Appendix I: The Gas Vans
Appendix II: The Kaszy?ski Affair
Appendix III: Fates of Key Figures
Notes
Bibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.11.2011 |
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Zusatzinfo | 51 bw in 16pp 1/1 plates, 4 maps |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 671 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84885-722-5 / 1848857225 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84885-722-3 / 9781848857223 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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