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Auschwitz Scholars Examine Auschwitz

Reviewed by Joachim Neander

  1. Franciszek Piper and Teresa Świebocka, eds., Auschwitz - Nazistowski obóz śmierci (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1993).
  2. Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1999).
  3. As defined by Maurice Halbwachs in his posthumous work, On Collective Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
  4. As coined by Eric Hobsbawm in Eric J. Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
  5. Hermann Langbein, Menschen in Auschwitz (Wien: Europa Verlag, 1972); reprinted several times, most recently (Munich: Europa Verlag, 1999).
  6. Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, eds., Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994).
  7. Robert-Jan van Pelt and Deborah Dwork, Auschwitz 1270 to the Present (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1996).
  8. Sybille Steinbacher, “Musterstadt” Auschwitz. Germanisierungspolitik und Judenmord in Oberschlesien (Munich: Saur, 2000).
  9. Bernd C. Wagner, IG Auschwitz. Zwangsarbeit und Vernichtung von Häftlingen des Lagers Monowitz 1941-1945 (Munich: Saur, 2000).
  10. Omer Bartov, The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation and Aftermath (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
  11. Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
  12. Franciszek Piper, Der Arbeitseinsatz der Häftlinge aus dem KL Auschwitz (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1995).
  13. Piotr Setkiewicz, “IG Farben Werk Auschwitz 1941-1945” (Ph.D. diss., Katowice: Silesian University, 1999).
  14. Franciszek Piper, Die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1993).
  15. Andrzej Strzelecki, Endphase des KL Auschwitz. Evakuierung, Liquidierung und Befreiung des Lagers (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1995).
  16. Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945 (London: I.B. Tauris, 1990).
  17. Title of his biography by Rainer Fröbe, in Ronald Smelser and Enrico Syring, eds., Die SS Elite unter dem Totenkopf (Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 2000).
  18. Bernd C. Wagner, “Gerüchte, Wissen, Verdrängung,” in Norbert Frei et al., eds., Ausbeutung, Vernichtung, Öffentlichkeit. Neuen Studie zur nationalsozialistischen Lagerpolitik (Munich: Saur, 2000).