Death by Design: Science, Technology, and

Through a selection of primary and secondary sources,Death by Designexamines the uses of technology during the Holocaust and the specific ways in which scientists, architects, medical professionals, businessmen, and engineers participated in the planning and operation of the concentration and extermination camps that were the foundation of the "final solution." The book discusses the overriding intellectual, ethical, and philosophical implications of the Nazirs"s use of science and technology in their killing operations.

List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. x
A Brief Historical Background	p. xiii
A Brief Summary of the Readings	p. xxi
Details of the Killing Operations
The Killing Process at Auschwitz-Birkenau	p. 1
From Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account	p. 2
Design and Development of the Gas Chambers and Crematoria in Auschwitz	p. 8
"Gas Chambers and Crematoria"	p. 9
Engineering Mass Murder at Auschwitz	p. 35
From "The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz"	p. 36
Technology, Management Policy, and Politics: General Issues
Technology and Politics in Totalitarian Regimes: Nazi Germany	p. 70
From Totalitarian Science and Technology	p. 71
Nazi Ideology, Management, and Engineering Technology in the SS	p. 87
From The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps	p. 88
The Role of Architectural Design in Nazi Germany
Architectural Aesthetics and Political Ideology in Nazi Germany	p. 121
"Architecture and the Destruction of the European Jews"	p. 122
Architecture and Technology in Nazi Germany: Memoirs	p. 147
From Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs	p. 148
Albert Speer: Ethics, Architecture, and Technology	p. 179
From "Rebellious Ethics and Albert Speer"	p. 180
Medicine and Biology in Nazi Germany
Genetic and Racial Theories in the Nazi War on Cancer	p. 201
From The Nazi War on Cancer	p. 202
Medicalized Killing in the Nazi Death Camps	p. 219
From The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide	p. 220
Engineering, Technology, and Business
IBM in Nazi Germany	p. 251
From IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation	p. 252
The Crime of I.G. Farben: Slave Labor and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany	p. 267
From The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben: The Unholy Alliance Between Hitler and the Great Chemical Combine	p. 268
Concluding Ethical Considerations
Technological Evil: Cultural Values in the Holocaust	p. 289
"On the Neutrality of Technology: The Holocaust Death Camps as a Counterexample"	p. 290
For Further Reading	p. 307
Credits	p. 311
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Death by Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany

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