Ebook: Architects of death the family whoengineered the Holocaust
Author: Firma J.A. Topf, Söhne., Bartlett Karen
- Tags: Concentration camps, Crematoriums--Germany--Design and construction--History--20thcentury, Guerre mondiale 1939-1945--Camps de concentration, Holocauste 1939-1945, Manufacturing industries, Manufacturing industries--Germany--History--20th century, World War 1939-1945--Concentration camps, Electronic books, Biography, 7, History, Firma J.A. Topf & Söhne, Firma J.A. Topf & Söhne, Crematoriums -- Germany -- Design and construction -- History -- 20thcentury, Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945), Manufacturing industr
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Biteback Publishing
- City: Germany
- Language: English
- epub
Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation – forty-six of which were at Auschwitz.
In five years the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz had been the engine of the holocaust, facilitating the murder and incineration of more than one million people, most of them Jews.
Yet such a spectacularly evil feat of engineering was designed not by the Nazi SS, but by a small respectable firm of German engineers: the owners and engineers of J. A. Topf and Sons. These were not Nazi sadists, but men who were playboys and the sons of train drivers. They were driven not by ideology, but by love affairs, personal ambition and bitter personal rivalries to create the ultimate human killing and disposal machines – even at the same time as their company sheltered Nazi enemies from the death...