421 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Afterwards and After-Words. Będzin before 1939 -- Border Crossings -- The Making of a Nazi Landrat -- An Early Question of Violence -- 'Only Administration' -- Means of Survival -- Escalation, 1941-1942 -- Towards Extermination -- The Deportations of August 1942 -- Ghettoization for the 'Final Solution' -- Final Thresholds -- Afterwards and After-Words.
Summary:
"In A Small Town Near Auschwitz, historian Mary Fulbrook tells the story of Udo Klausa, a civilian administrator in the small town of Będzin, an ordinary functionary who helped implement the Nazis' inhumane policies towards the Jews." -- From publisher description.
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