Inside the gas chambers : eight months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz / by Venezia, Shlomo, 1923-2012

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The last gasp : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / by Christianson, Scott

Table of Contents: “…The rise of the lethal chamber -- Envisioning the lethal chamber -- Fashioning a frightful weapon of war -- Devising "constructive peacetime uses" -- Staging the world's first gas execution -- "Like watering flowers" -- Pillar of respectability -- The rising storm -- Adapted for genocide -- pt. 2. The fall of the gas chamber -- Clouds of abolition -- The battle over capital punishment -- "Cruel and unusual punishment"? …”

The last gasp : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / by Christianson, Scott

Subjects: “…Gas chambers United States History.…”
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Eyewitness Auschwitz : three years in the gas chambers / by Müller, Filip

Unanswered questions : Nazi Germany and the genocide of the Jews /

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Leadership : learning, teaching, and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Idealism, realism, and blue jays in the gas chamber of educational leadership /…”
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Last words of the executed / by Elder, Robert K.

Table of Contents: “…The noose -- The firing squad -- The electric chair -- The gas chamber -- Lethal injection.…”
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Last words of the executed / by Elder, Robert K.

Table of Contents: “…The noose -- The firing squad -- The electric chair -- The gas chamber -- Lethal injection.…”
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History on trial : my day in court with David Irving / by Lipstadt, Deborah E.

Table of Contents: “…-- Our German contingent -- Cavorting with thugs or guilt by association? -- One-person gas chambers and white people's polkas -- The final scene -- Judgment day : phone chains, psalms, and sleepless survivors -- Enormous thanks -- The "jester's costume."…”

Sobibor : a history of a Nazi death camp / by Schelvis, Jules

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to the 'final solution' -- Construction and staffing -- The trains -- Arrival and selection -- The Arbeitshäftlinge -- The gas chambers -- Dorohucza and Lublin -- Escape attempts -- The revolt -- After the revolt -- Transports, deportees and death counts -- Sobibór survivors -- The perpertrators.…”
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Auschwitz, USA : a comparative study in efficiency and human management : how the Nazis' "final solution" annihilated the Jews in Europe and how America's "free enterprise" has con... by Huer, Jon

Table of Contents: “…The Auschwitz Method -- 9. The Gas Chamber, The Most Efficient Death -- 10. From Wannsee to the Gas Chamber -- 11. …”
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / by Sarat, Austin

Table of Contents: “…: technological efficiency, botched executions and the legitimacy of capital punishment in the United States -- A clumsy, inefficient, inhuman thing : death by hanging -- When science fails : electrocution -- A short and unhappy history : the gas chamber -- "How enviable a quiet death . . ." : lethal injection -- Botched executions and the struggle to end capital punishment.…”

Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / by Sarat, Austin

Table of Contents: “…: technological efficiency, botched executions, and the legitimacy of capital punishment in the United States -- A clumsy, inefficient, inhuman thing : death by hanging -- When science fails : electrocution -- A short and unhappy history : the gas chamber -- "How enviable a quiet death" : lethal injection -- Botched executions and the struggle to end capital punishment.…”
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Executed women of the 20th and 21st centuries / by Gillespie, L. Kay

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Lethal injection--the ultimate high -- Hanging--"[D]on't hang me high ... for decency sake" -- The electric chair--"This is a step forward in the cause of humanity" -- The gas chamber--"How in the hell would you know?" -- Federal executions of women -- The last two of the 20th century -- The new century -- Clemencies and commutations -- What must a woman do to be executed? …”
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The gas mask in interwar Germany : visions of chemical modernity / by Thompson, Peter, 1988-

Table of Contents: “…The Structures of Violence: Fritz Haber and the Institutionalization of Gas Warfare -- The Man in the Rubber Mask: World War I and the Development of the Modern Gas Mask -- The First "Chemical Subjects": Soldiers Encounters with the Gas Mask in World War I -- The Limits of Sympathy: The Medical Treatment of Poison Gas During and After World War I -- Atmos(fears): The Poison Gas Debates in the Weimar Republic -- Technologies of Fate: Cultural and Intellectual Prophesies of the Future Gas War -- Synthesizing the "Nazi Chemical Subject": Gas Masks, Personal Armoring, and Vestiary Discipline in the Third Reich -- Prophets of Poison: Industrialized Murder in the Gas Chambers of the Holocaust.…”
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Hebrew literature in the wake of the Holocaust /

Table of Contents: “…Yudkin -- The ivory tower and the gas chamber : on the nature and teaching of Holocaust literature / Abraham Marthan -- Memory in the work of Yehiel Dinur (Ka-Tzetnik 135633) / William D. …”

The final solution; the attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. by Reitlinger, Gerald, 1900-1979

Table of Contents: “…Forced emigration and pogroms before September, 1939 -- Deportations, 1939-1941 -- The ghettoes, 1940-1942 -- The Madagascar project : the deportations to Lodz and Russia, June, 1940-January, 1942 -- The Wannsee conference and the Auschwitz plan -- The gas chambers -- The fate of the reich Jews and the fight for exemption -- Part II: The final solution, country by country. …”

The Sobibor death camp : history, biographies, remembrance / by Webb, Chris, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; Authorâ#x80;#x99;s Introduction; With Grateful Thanks; Abbreviations used in the Footnotes; The Author â#x80;#x93; Whitehill 2016; Part I The Hell Called Sobibór; Chapter I â#x80;#x98;Aktion Reinhardtâ#x80;#x99; (An Overview); Chapter II The Construction of The Sobibór Death Camp; Chapter III The Original Gas Chambers and Camp III; Chapter IV Mass Murder Begins (Aprilâ#x80;#x93;August 1942); Chapter V Franz Reichleitner Arrives Construction of New Gas Chambers (Juneâ#x80;#x93;December 1942); Chapter VI Jewish Work Brigades (Everyday Life and Death).…”
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Walls around : the plunder of Warsaw Jewry during World War II and its aftermath / by Levin, Itamar

Table of Contents: “…"We must finish off the Jews" : theft of Jewish property as an instrument of genocide -- "Sucking the last drops of blood" : year one : apartments taken, furniture stolen, income cut -- "One enormous funeral" : establishing the ghetto : Germans, Poles, and Jews steal the remaining property -- "A terrifying, shocking cry" : the results of theft : poverty, starvation, disease, and death -- "The ghetto turned into hell" : mass deportation : Warsaw's Jews sent to die, their property looted -- "Capitalizing on tragedy" : Treblinka : theft on the way to the gas chambers, and afterward -- "Guaranteed lost for eternity" : the war's aftermath : the survivors leave Poland and their property behind -- "We are losing precious time" : present and future : internal strife among Jews while Poland shirks responsibility.…”

The Holocaust and the nonrepresentable : literary and photographic transcendence / by Patterson, David, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The Legacy of Lot's WifeFootprints; The Glory under Assault; The Mothers of Israel; The Child; The Face; The Edge of the Anti-World; The Grave without a Cemetery; The Muselmann; Selection: No Judge and No Judgment; A View from the Gas Chambers; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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