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Hitler's Slave Lords
Michael Thad Allen
其他書名
The Business of Forced Labour in Occupied Europe
出版
Tempus
, 2004
主題
History / Europe / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater
History / World
ISBN
0752429205
9780752429205
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZgAmAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats--no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included designing and constructing the concentration camps and gas chambers, building secret underground weapons factories, and brokering slave laborers to private companies such as Volkswagen and IG Farben. The business of genocide contradicts the assumption that the SS forced slavery upon the German economy, demonstrating that instead industrialists actively sought out the Business Administration Main Office as a valued partner in the war economy. Moreover, while the bureaucrats who oversaw Holocaust operations have often been seen as technocrats or simple cogs in the machinery, the book reveals their ideological dedication, even fanatical devotion, to slavery and genocide in the name of National Socialism.