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The Mechanics of Death: Architectures of Extermination in the Nazi State book cover

1st Edition

The Mechanics of Death Architectures of Extermination in the Nazi State

By Xabier Irujo Copyright 2027
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing directly on primary documentary evidence of the Holocaust, this book returns to the raw archival foundations of genocide understanding to interrogate the systems, logistics, and procedural mechanisms that transformed ideological hatred into industrialized murder. Rather than focusing on daily camp life, it examines death itself as an organized, bureaucratic, and technological process.... Read more

Presentation

Preamble

Proem

Part 1: Savage Overture

1. A Plan in Three Words: Ostsiedlung, Volksdeutsche y Lebensraum

2. Generalplan Ost

3. Repopulation

Part 2: Blood-Stained Prelude

4. The Summer of 1941

5. Pogroms

6. Crying Ditches

7. Insights into a Rationale of Death

Part 3: A Dance of Death in Four Steps

8. A Dance of Death in Four Steps

9. Universe KL

10. Displacement

11. Concentration

12. Transport

Part 4: Extermination

13. Extermination

14. Arrivals

15. Into the Crematorium

16. Different Expressions of Death

Part 5: Coda Post Mortem

17. Dispossessing the Dead

18. Cremation and Disposal

Part 6: Numbers

19. Numbers

Biography

Xabier Irujo is Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on genocide and exile. Key publications include Expelled from the Motherland (2012), Gernika 1937 (2017), and Gernika: Genealogy of a Lie (2018).

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