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A review essay on a book by Wolfgang Sofsky, Die Ordnung des Terrors: das Konzentrationslager ([The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp] Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1993 [see listing in IRPS No. 81]). Sofsky's book is at once an incisive & marvelous sociological analysis. Sofsky asserts that the concentration camp was founded on sheer terror & absolute violence. The guards were rewarded for being arbitrary, obnoxious, & unpredictable. Captives were divided & incapacitated by manipulating some into betraying others, & were deprived of physical, mental, & social well-being. Sofsky raises three important issues from the viewpoint of organizational sociology: concentration camps were single, not multipurpose, & were organized to annihilate the captives; in the concentration camp bureaucracy, every officer at every level had absolute power over his captives; & the concentration camp system was without a mission or ideology. Sofsky's monograph is a useful reference to the study of collaboration & opposition in organizations. 23 References. M. Pflum