A battlefield of ideas : Nazi concentration camps and their Polish prisoners /
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| Author / Creator: | Debski, Tadeusz. |
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| Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : East European Monographs ; New York : distributed by Columbia University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | 285 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | East European monographs no. 580 East European monographs. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4605977 |
Table of Contents:
- I.. The Camps Interpreted
- Definitions, Assumptions, Statements, Sources
- The Camps: Their History and Purpose
- The Organizational Structure of the Camps
- The Categories of Prisoners
- The Explanatory Models of the Camps
- Old Models and A New Proposal
- Survivors and Scholars
- II.. A Typology of Prisoners
- General Remarks
- Men and Women
- Flotsam and Jetsam; the Undecided
- Those at the Bottom; the Muselmen
- The Lonely Intellectuals
- National, Religious and Ideological Groups
- III.. Life in the Camps
- The Painfulness of Camp Life
- Intensity
- Habituation
- Dignity and Self-respect
- From Day to Day
- Illness and Death
- Egoism, Altruism, Friendship
- Survival
- The SS in the Camps
- IV.. The Special Case of the Poles
- The Conflict between Poles and Germans
- The Second Kulturkampf
- Polish Scholars and the Concentration Camps
- V.. After the Liberation
- Back to Freedom
- New Lives, Old Nightmares
- Conclusion and Prognosis
- Lagersprache (Camp Language)
- Annotated Bibliography