Description
Author(s): Steinbacher, Sybille
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.
About the author:
Sybille Steinbacher teaches at The University of Bochum. She is currently Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
Shaun Whiteside is a previous winner of The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translations, and translator of The Birth of Tragedy and Musil's The Confessions of Young T rless for Penguin Classics. He lives in London.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780141987484
Audience: General/trade
Language: English
Number of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 20180716
Publisher: Penguin UK
Product Form: Paperback / softback
Dimensions (LxWxH): 196 mm130 mm10 mm
Weight: 134 gr