- Summary
- "Through a selection of primary and secondary sources ... examines the uses of technology during the Holocaust and the specific ways in which scientists, architects, medical professionals, businessmen, and engineers participated in the planning and operation of the concentration and extermination camps that were the foundation of the "final solution""--Cover p. 4.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Pearson Longman, c2006
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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The killing process at Auschwitz-Birkenau. From Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account / Miklos Nyiszli
Design and development of the gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwitz. "Gas chambers and crematoria" / Franciszek Piper
Engineering mass murder at Auschwitz. From "The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz" / Jean-Claude Pressac with Robert Jan van Pelt
Technology and politics in totalitarian regimes : Nazi Germany. From Totalitarian science and technology / Paul R. Josephson
Nazi ideology, management, and engineering technology in the SS. From The business of genocide : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps / Michael Thad Allen
Architectural aesthetics and political ideology in Nazi Germany. "Architecture and destruction of the European Jews" / Paul B. Jaskot
Architecture and technology in Nazi Germany : memoirs. From Inside the Third Reich : memoirs / Albert Speer
Albert Speer : ethics, architecture, and technology. From "Rebellious ethics and Albert Speer" / Jack L. Sammons, Jr.
Genetic and racial theories in the Nazi war on cancer. From The Nazi war on cancer / Robert N. Proctor
Medicalized killing in the Nazi death camps. From The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide / Robert J. Lifton
IBM in Nazi Germany. From IBM and the Holocaust : the strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America's most powerful corporation / Edwin Black
The crime of I.G. Farben : slave labor and mass murder in Nazi Germany. From The crime and punishment of I.G. Farben : the unholy alliance between Hitler and the great chemical combine / Joseph Borkin
Technological evil : cultural values in the Holocaust. "On the neutrality of technology : the Holocaust death camps as a counterexample" / Eric Katz.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Katz, Eric, 1952-
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309).
The killing process at Auschwitz-Birkenau. From Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account / Miklos Nyiszli -- Design and development of the gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwitz. "Gas chambers and crematoria" / Franciszek Piper -- Engineering mass murder at Auschwitz. From "The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz" / Jean-Claude Pressac with Robert Jan van Pelt -- Technology and politics in totalitarian regimes : Nazi Germany. From Totalitarian science and technology / Paul R. Josephson -- Nazi ideology, management, and engineering technology in the SS. From The business of genocide : the SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps / Michael Thad Allen -- Architectural aesthetics and political ideology in Nazi Germany. "Architecture and destruction of the European Jews" / Paul B. Jaskot -- Architecture and technology in Nazi Germany : memoirs. From Inside the Third Reich : memoirs / Albert Speer -- Albert Speer : ethics, architecture, and technology. From "Rebellious ethics and Albert Speer" / Jack L. Sammons, Jr. -- Genetic and racial theories in the Nazi war on cancer. From The Nazi war on cancer / Robert N. Proctor -- Medicalized killing in the Nazi death camps. From The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide / Robert J. Lifton -- IBM in Nazi Germany. From IBM and the Holocaust : the strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America's most powerful corporation / Edwin Black -- The crime of I.G. Farben : slave labor and mass murder in Nazi Germany. From The crime and punishment of I.G. Farben : the unholy alliance between Hitler and the great chemical combine / Joseph Borkin -- Technological evil : cultural values in the Holocaust. "On the neutrality of technology : the Holocaust death camps as a counterexample" / Eric Katz.