Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sofsky, Wolfgang

Titel

Selection

Ist Teil von

• The Order of Terror, 2013, p.241-258

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The scene at the ramp in Auschwitz is familiar: the first station in industrialized genocide. However, selection did not take place only in the forced ghettoes and when transports arrived at the extermination centers. It was a more common procedure: a general organizational schema by which “superfluous” human beings were sorted out from workers and then liquidated. Selection also took place within the concentration camps, in the overcrowded infirmaries, and in the external subcamps. Its scope was broad: for that reason, in any attempt to grasp the magnitude, process, and function of the selections, the focus should encompass the entire