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Discover a chilling yet essential piece of history with 'Architects of Death.' This compelling narrative explores the dark engineering marvels of the J. A. Topf and Sons company, the creators of the infamous crematoria used in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. With an ISBN of 9781785900426, this powerful book delves into how ordinary German engineers transformed their ambitions into instruments of horrific genocide during World War II. Dismantling myths about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, it reveals how personal rivalries and motivations drove individuals in a small firm to design these lethal machines. Instead of being driven by a Nazi ideology, the engineers of Topf and Sons displayed a chilling combination of ambition and indifference to human suffering, resulting in the deaths of over one million innocents. Every page of 'Architects of Death' brings to light the harrowing intersection of engineering and atrocity, providing insights for historians, students, and anyone interested in the depths of human capability for evil. This book is essential for those studying Holocaust history, engineering ethics, and the intertwining of personal motivations with systemic violence. With free shipping on this item and a delivery timeframe of up to 6 weeks, owning this brand-new copy published by Biteback Publishing in 2018 is a haunting reminder of the power of engineering in shaping history.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781785900426
Year: 2018
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Description:
Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height, sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation – forty-six of which were at Auschwitz.
In five years the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz had been the engine of the holocaust, facilitating the murder and incineration of more than one million people, most of them Jews.
Yet such a spectacularly evil feat of engineering was designed not by the Nazi SS, but by a small respectable firm of German engineers: the owners and engineers of J. A. Topf and Sons. These were not Nazi sadists, but men who were playboys and the sons of train drivers. They were driven not by ideology, but by love affairs, personal ambition and bitter personal rivalries to create the ultimate human killing and disposal machines – even at the same time as their company sheltered Nazi enemies from the death camps.
The intense conflagration of their very ordinary motives created work that surpassed in its inhumanity even the demands of the SS. In order to fulfil their own 'dreams' they created the ultimate human nightmare.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781785900426
Year: 2018
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Description:
Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height, sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation – forty-six of which were at Auschwitz.
In five years the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz had been the engine of the holocaust, facilitating the murder and incineration of more than one million people, most of them Jews.
Yet such a spectacularly evil feat of engineering was designed not by the Nazi SS, but by a small respectable firm of German engineers: the owners and engineers of J. A. Topf and Sons. These were not Nazi sadists, but men who were playboys and the sons of train drivers. They were driven not by ideology, but by love affairs, personal ambition and bitter personal rivalries to create the ultimate human killing and disposal machines – even at the same time as their company sheltered Nazi enemies from the death camps.
The intense conflagration of their very ordinary motives created work that surpassed in its inhumanity even the demands of the SS. In order to fulfil their own 'dreams' they created the ultimate human nightmare.