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Order Of Terror
During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945 the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence starvation terror labor " and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social solidarity disrupted the very ideas of time and space perverted human work into torture and unleashed innumerable atrocities.As a result daily life was reduced to a permanent struggle for survival even as the meaning
of self-preservation was extinguished. Sofsky takes us from the searing unforgettable image of the Muselmann - Auschwitz jargon for the "walking dead" - to chronicles of epidemics terror punishments selections and torture. The society of the camp was dominated by the S.S. and a system of graduated and forced collaboration which turned selected victims into accomplices of terror.Sofsky shows that the S. S. was not a rigid bureaucracy but a system with ample room for autonomy.The S.S. demanded individual initiative of its members. Consequently although they were not required to torment or murder prisoners officers and guards often exploited their freedom to do so - in passing or on a whim with cause or without. The order of terror described by Sofsky culminated in the organized murder of
millions of European Jews and Gypsies in the death-factories of Auschwitz and Treblinka. By the end of this book Sofsky shows that the German concentration camp system cannot be seen as a temporary lapse into barbarism. Instead it must be conceived as a product of modern civilization where institutionalized state-run human cruelty became possible with or without the mobilizing feelings of hatred."
of self-preservation was extinguished. Sofsky takes us from the searing unforgettable image of the Muselmann - Auschwitz jargon for the "walking dead" - to chronicles of epidemics terror punishments selections and torture. The society of the camp was dominated by the S.S. and a system of graduated and forced collaboration which turned selected victims into accomplices of terror.Sofsky shows that the S. S. was not a rigid bureaucracy but a system with ample room for autonomy.The S.S. demanded individual initiative of its members. Consequently although they were not required to torment or murder prisoners officers and guards often exploited their freedom to do so - in passing or on a whim with cause or without. The order of terror described by Sofsky culminated in the organized murder of
millions of European Jews and Gypsies in the death-factories of Auschwitz and Treblinka. By the end of this book Sofsky shows that the German concentration camp system cannot be seen as a temporary lapse into barbarism. Instead it must be conceived as a product of modern civilization where institutionalized state-run human cruelty became possible with or without the mobilizing feelings of hatred."
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