Chełmno and the Holocaust : the history of Hitler's first death camp /

Chełmno and the Holocaust : the history of Hitler's first death camp /

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Author / Creator:	Montague, Patrick, 1954-
Imprint:	Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 291 pages), unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps, portraits
Language:	English
Subject:	Chelmno (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10490997

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Other authors / contributors:	Browning, Christopher R.
Notes:	Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 28, 2014). Includes bibliographical references and index. In English.
Summary:	As the first extermination camp established by the Nazi regime and the prototype of the single-purpose death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec, the Chelmno death camp stands as a crucial but largely unexplored element of the Holocaust. This book is the first comprehensive work in any language to detail all aspects of the camp's history, organization, and operations and to remedy the dearth of information in Holocaust literature about Chelmno, which served as a template for the Nazis' 'Final Solution.' Patrick Montague reveals events leading to the establishment of the camp, how the mobile killing squad employed the world's first gas van to terminate the lives of mentally-ill patients, and the assembly-line procedure employed in the camp to commit genocide on the Jewish population. Based on over 20 years of careful research, this book provides the first single-volume history of the camp and its handful of survivors and includes previously unpublished first-hand accounts and photographs. Chelmno and the Holocaust is a vital contribution to a critically important chapter in the history of the Holocaust.
Other form:	Original publisher ISBN 9780807835272

Table of Contents:

1. Prologue. The euthanasia program
Mobile killing operations
The turning point
2. Extermination: the first period (1941-1943). Establishing the camp
The transports
The mansion: arrival, murder, plunder
The forest camp
Resumption of transports
Escapes
First liquidation of the camp
3. Extermination: the second period (1944-1945). Re-establishing the camp
A new killing procedure
Final liquidation of the camp
4. Epilogue. Chełmno: 1945 to the present
The number of victims
Conclusion and reflection
Appendices. Appendix I: the gas vans
Appendix II: the Kaszyński affair
Appendix III: fates of key figures.