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Gretton, Dan, author.
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Genocide -- History -- 20th century.
Crimes against humanity -- History -- 20th century.
Targeted killing -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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I you we them. Vol. 1, Walking into the world of the desk killer / Dan Gretton.
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Gretton, Dan, author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Subjects
Genocide -- History -- 20th century.
Crimes against humanity -- History -- 20th century.
Targeted killing -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN:
9780374174378 (hardcover) :
0374174377 (hardcover)
Description:
xiii, 1090 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Edition:
First American edition.
Contents:
book 1. Journeys into the world of the desk killer: Preface: First day, white page -- part 1. Mapping the past: Explorations : maps and the curiosity of a child's mind ; Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer and the desk killer ; How we look at history : a moment at the Liverpool Street Station -- part 2. Walking through time: Journeys with J. ; The town of organised forgetting ; Saurer : a coda... "The blind spot in the writing of history" ; Interlude in which we meet a figure ; We will be returning to... the architect in London, first trip -- part 3. The violence of a corporation: "Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues" ; From a desk in Waterloo to a cell in Port Harcourt ; The invisible corporation -- part 4. Fire and water: A hillside in Grosseto : a dream of my father (How people can kill : the first factor) ; A pool in East London (How people in organisations can kill : the second factor) -- part 5. Walking into the world of the desk killer : four journeys: The doctors of Wannsee meet in a villa by the lake ; Carpathian days ; Walking into whiteness ; The patience of a hand and a pencil.
book 2. Silence and speaking: Preface: To the West -- part 1. Survival and speaking: A hand in the desert ; The use and abuse of words : Jan Karski and Albert Speer -- part 2. Silences of the fathers: My father and his silence ; The silences of societies in the face of atrocity : Germany, France, America, Britain ; Vernichtung ; A coda : the power of history and the burning of books -- part 3. The violence of my country: A question from Günter grass ; Crow-hunting in Tasmania ; The British famine : "Slaughters done in Ireland my mere official red tape" -- part 4. The breaking of silences: Moments of seismic shift : 7 December 1970, Warsaw, 2 June 2005, Belgrade, 14 August 2004, Okakarara, 14 July 2016, Berlin ; Power and the hurricane -- part 5. Perpetrators, victims, bystanders: The arhictect on trial ; Room 519 : into darkness (How people in organisations can kill : a further four factors) ; The oilman and the broken wing ; A painting in The Hague, a farmhouse in Suffolk, a stadium in Somalia -- part 6. Civilisation/barbarism: A walk from Goethe's gartenhaus to the gates of Buchenwald : 10,166 steps ; The lawyers of Washington -- part 7. Time and love, memory and looking: Past continuous ; The wood pigeons and the train -- part 8. Opening the prisons in our minds: The architect in prison : a different man? ; Searching for Antigone in Ashford, and for languages that do not yet exist...
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In this first volume of the author's two volume work, the author begins his exploration into the nature and actions of those who ordered and directed the commission of crimes against humanity; each of the two volumes contains two books.
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