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Auschwitz 1270 to the Present
Auschwitz 1270 to the Present
Author: Deborah Dwork and Robert J. Van Pelt
Condition: Good
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Auschwitz 1270 to the Present traces how the ordinary medieval town of Oświęcim was incrementally transformed into the Third Reich’s most lethal killing site, showing the process as a series of human decisions—mostly by German men—rather than an inexplicable singularity. Drawing on hundreds of architectural plans and blueprints the Germans failed to destroy, municipal and federal archives, and a rich body of eyewitness material, Deborah Dwork and Robert J. van Pelt link seven centuries of regional history to the five‑year evolution of the Auschwitz complex, situating the camp within Himmler’s broader project of “Germanizing” the landscape and revealing the concrete effects of planning and policy on inmates’ daily lives.
Scholarly in scope, the book is both a Holocaust history and an architectural‑planning study: it reproduces architectural plans and blueprints, site maps and plans, historical photographs, and diagrams alongside extensive archival documentation and survivor testimony. Published by W. W. Norton & Company (1997 paperback edition, ISBN 9780393316841) and a National Jewish Book Award winner (1996), the work combines rigorous archival research with architectural analysis to offer a distinctive, evidence‑rich interpretation of Auschwitz’s origins and development.
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Keywords, content and topics in this Book
Keywords, content and topics in this Book
Core bibliographic
Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present
Deborah Dwork
Robert Jan van Pelt
W. W. Norton & Company
1997 paperback edition
ISBN 9780393316841
National Jewish Book Award winner (1996)
Theater / geographical focus
Eastern Front (broad WWII context; German-occupied Poland)
Auschwitz / Oświęcim (Poland)
Upper Silesia
German-occupied Poland (Generalgouvernement and annexed territories)
Chronological scope
Medieval period (from ca. 1270)
Early modern period
Interwar period (post–World War I settlement, Treaty-of-Versailles context)
World War II (1939–1945)
Postwar / Cold War and late-20th-century memory and preservation (“to the present”)
Operations / campaigns (as context)
German invasion and occupation of Poland, 1939
Main nations / actors
Nazi Germany
Poland
Austro-Hungarian Empire (pre–World War I regional control)
Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe
Type of book
Scholarly monograph
Holocaust history
Camp history
Architectural and planning history study
Focus / subject emphasis
Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp – institutional history
Transformation of Oświęcim from medieval town to Nazi killing center
Urban planning and architectural design of Auschwitz complex
Nazi policy toward Polish territories and “Germanization” of the region
Everyday life and experience in Auschwitz (inferred from eyewitness materials described in reviews)
Branches / institutions
SS camp administration (Auschwitz)
German civil administration in occupied Poland
German architectural and planning offices involved in camp and town redesign
Holocaust & genocide themes
Holocaust
Final Solution
Mass murder and genocide
Deportation and extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
Concentration camp system
Role of Auschwitz as “killing field”
Leaders / historical figures (as treated in this book)
Nazi leadership associated with planning, building, and administering Auschwitz (in general, not individually cataloged in the product description)
Weapons / technology (only as clearly included)
Crematoria design and operation (via plans and photographs)
Visual and technical content
Historical photographs
Architectural plans and blueprints of Auschwitz
Maps and site plans
Graphs and diagrams (noted by reviewers)
Methodology / sources
Eyewitness accounts from survivors and Nazi personnel (as described by reviews)
Local and regional historical documentation (Austro-Hungarian, Polish, German records)
Thematic keywords (content-derived)
Auschwitz camp history
Oświęcim town history
Germanization of Polish territories
Occupation policy in Poland
Evolution of concentration camp into extermination center
Architecture of genocide
Urban planning under the Third Reich
Industrial exploitation and forced labor at Auschwitz
Regional history of Silesia and Galicia
Memory and commemoration of Auschwitz
Classification-style tags
World War II – Eastern Front – Occupied Poland
Holocaust – Poland
Concentration and extermination camps – Auschwitz
Nazi occupation policy – urban planning and settlement
Genocide studies
Jewish history – 20th century – Europe
Military technology of mass killing – gas chambers and crematoria (documentary focus)
Historical geography of Oświęcim / Auschwitz
Architectural history – Third Reich
Book Condition: Good
Book Condition: Good
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