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Author:   Elissa Mailänder ,  Patricia Szobar ,  Patricia Szobar
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
Imprint:   Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781611861709

ISBN 10:   1611861705
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   01 March 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations Chapter 1. Methodological and Theoretical Considerations Chapter 2. The Majdanek Concentration and Death Camp: An Overview Chapter 3. Women Looking for Work: Paths to Careers in the Concentration Camps Chapter 4. Ravensbrück Training Camp: The Concentration Camp as Disciplinary Space Chapter 5. Going East: Transfer to the Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp, 1942–1944 Chapter 6. Work Conditions at Majdanek Chapter 7. Annihilation as Work: The Daily Work of Killing in the Camp Chapter 8. Escapes and Their Meaning within the Structure of Power and Violence in the Camp Chapter 9. License to Kill? Unauthorized Actions by the Camp Guards Chapter 10. Violence as Social Practice Chapter 11. Cruelty: An Anthropological Perspective Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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The book demonstrates that young women often acted to a considerable degree on their own initiative to ensure the functioning of an extermination camp. . . . By elucidating the horrific 'workaday routines' of these female perpetrators in Majdanek and confronting the abysmal anthropological depths of a topic that is still taboo, the author helps to reconstruct how the murder of Europe's Jews could become reality. --Bernward Dorner, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Author Information

Elissa Mailänder is Associate Professor at the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po and on the staff of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne in Paris. Formerly, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington D.C. Patricia Szobar is a writer and translator who lives in Berlin.

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