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The theory and practice of hell : the German concentration camps and the system behind them / Eugene Kogon.
TITLE:
The theory and practice of hell : the German concentration camps and the system behind them / Eugene Kogon.
Translated Title:
SS-Staat
Publication Date:
2006
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Edition:
1st rev. ed.
Physical Description:
xxi, 343 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
A complete picture of the society, morality, and politics that fueled the systematic torture of six million human beings. For many years, The Theory and Practice of Hell remained the seminal work on the concentration camps, particularly in Germany. Reissued with an introduction by Nikolaus Waschmann, a leading Holocaust scholar and author of Hilter's Prisons, this important work now demands to be re-read.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374529925
General Note:
Previously published: New York : Farrar, Straus, 1950.

"With a new introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann"