A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust

by Mary Fulbrook

Book Overview

The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers.

The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area - inhumane processes that were the precursors of genocide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199603308
• ISBN13: 9780199603305
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"