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Author Pawełczyńska, Anna.

Title Values and violence in Auschwitz : a sociological analysis / Anna Pawełczyńska ; translated and with an introd. by Catherine S. Leach
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1979]
©1979

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Description xxxi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents The world outside the camp: frames of reference. The authority of terror. Defense of the dimension of life -- Institutions of state crime -- Living space. At home. The road to work. Space and communication -- Breaking the prisoners' solidarity -- Social differentiation and the odds for survival. Unequal chances on arrival. Unequal chances of defense -- A place in the structure of terror. Penal crews. The privileges of relative stability. Ambiguous privileges. Muselmanner-beyond chance and judgment. Industrial death. The elite -- The psychological relativity of numbers. Size of the apparatus of violence. Colored triangles. Letters and numbers -- Love and erotica -- Socio-economic defense mechanisms. The function and evolution of the camp market. The battle for power -- The organized resistance movement -- Mechanisms of adaption and self-defense. The social experiment. Reduction of material needs -- People and values. Values as a frame of reference. The reinterpretation of moral standards
Analysis Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz Concentration camp
Political prisoners Poland Obswiqecim Attitudes
Political prisoners Poland Oświęcim Attitudes
Social values
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz Concentration camp
Political prisoners Poland Obswiqecim Attitudes
Political prisoners Poland Oświęcim Attitudes
Social values
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150)
Notes Also available via the World Wide Web
Translation of: 'Wartosci a przemoc, zarys socjologicznej problematyki Oswiecimia'. Warszawa : Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1973
Subject Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Political prisoners -- Poland -- Auschwitz -- Attitudes
Political prisoners -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Attitudes.
Social values.
Author Leach, Catherine S.
LC no. 76003886
ISBN 0520032101
0520042425
9780520032101
9780520042421
Other Titles Wartości a przemoc. English