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Bartlett, Karen

 
9781785900426: Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust
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ISBN 10 : 1785900420 ISBN 13 : 9781785900426
Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

The respectable faces the Topf brothers showed the world masked unspeakable horrors they worked for Hitler and traded in mass murder.

J. A. Topf and Sons began life as a well-respected, but unremarkable, engineering firm in the provincial German city of Erfurt. A family-owned business, it produced heating systems, as well as brewing and malting equipment. But the advent of the Second World War would see Topf and Sons become a manufacturer of crematoria for concentration camps including Auschwitz and Buchenwald recasting the firm as an agent of Nazi sadism.

During the horror-filled years of the Holocaust, the company would facilitate the murder of more than one million men, women and children. Most of the workers at Topf and Sons were never fervent Nazis driven by extremist and hate-filled ideologies. Yet, fuelled by personal ambition and bitter professional rivalries, Topf and Son s owners and senior engineers competed with each other to develop the technology for the twentieth century s worst genocide.

In Architects of Death, Karen Bartlett reveals exactly how and why the name of Topf and Sons became synonymous with Nazi inhumanity, and examines the natures and behaviour of the men responsible for the company s enduring infamy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist based in London. She has written extensively for the Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, and WIRED from Africa, India, and the US, and has presented and produced for BBC Radio. Most recently, she worked with Eva Schloss, writing her Sunday Times bestselling autobiography After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank.

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Éditeur
Biteback Publishing
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785900420
ISBN 13 
9781785900426
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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