Michael Thad Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Thad Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Thad |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Realms of Oblivion
On March 10, 1972, a little-known Auschwitz trial came to a rather unremarkable conclusion with the release of Fritz Ertl and Walter Dejaco. Both had served as SS architects in the Central Construction Directorate(ZBL)-Auschwitz. Both were part of a team responsible for designing and building the gas chambers of Birkenau. The District Attorneys' Office of Vienna had prepared the case against them with great ambition nearly a decade before. Prosec…
Hitler's Bombe
Reviewed by: Hitlers Bombe: Die geheime Geschichte der deutschen Kernwaffenversuche Michael Thad Allen (bio) Hitlers Bombe: Die geheime Geschichte der deutschen Kernwaffenversuche. By Rainer Karlsch. Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005. Pp. 432. €24.90. Rainer Karlsch's book is controversial, but this is to be lauded. He has had the courage to bring the methodical patience of a trained historian to a subject, the German atomic bomb, so often a…
Architects of Annihilation
Reviewed by: Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction Michael Allen (bio) Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction. By Götz Aly and Susanne Heim, trans. A. G. Blunden. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 378. $29.95. Few books have had as much influence on Holocaust studies as Götz Aly and Susanne Heim's Vordenker der Vernichtung, published in 1991 by Fischer Verlag. That book…
Grey-Collar Worker
Stereotypes of the banal bureaucrat as fashioned by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem have more to do with intellectuals’ anxieties about modern organisation than they have to do with the Holocaust or the institutions of genocide. Moreover, the overwhelming influence of Arendt’s interpretation has paradoxically helped to muzzle the voice of Holocaust survivors. Institutions like Auschwitz could never have functioned without countless victims…
The Business of Genocide
Second thoughts on Gedachtes Wohnen
(2004). Second thoughts on Gedachtes Wohnen. Philosophy & Geography: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 253-256
Poems in Steel
By the 1930s, the frustration of many German engineers led them into the ken of right-wing intellectuals who glorified inventing not as a rational, economic pursuit but as the manifestation of spirit and Volk. It was but a short step from there to the Nazi Party, which mixed romanticism and engineering in a heady brew of "reactionary modernism." This epithet, coined by Jeffrey Herf, has become a handy oxymoron, for it associates disreputable aspe…
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews
1University of Connecticut The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish‐Owned Property HaroldJames CambridgeCambridge University Press 2001280$25.00
The Devil in the Details
What were the models for the gas chambers, and when were they first implemented? Examining technical details of the ventilation systems of the Birkenau morgues, this article argues that from the beginning of October 1941 the SS planned Morgue 1 of Crematoria II and III as a gas chamber for the extermination of human beings. The precedents were Zyklon-B chambers for delousing clothing, a technology widely known throughout a network of specialized …
Stranger than Science Fiction
Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (New York: Crown Books, 2001) briefly achieved best-seller status soon after its publication, but sales dwindled in the face of negative reviews. While this review is also negative, it is important to note at the outset that Black addresses a significant issue, the continuing participation of American corporations in German aff…
Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941-1944. Organisation und Durchfuhrung eines staatlichen Massenverbrechens
A history of modern European technology
A History of Modern European Technology: The Propyläen Technikgeschichte Michael Allen (bio) In 1997, Propyläen Verlag in Berlin published a five-volume encyclopedia edited by Wolfgang König and titled, straightforwardly, Propyläen Technikgeschichte. 1 The work, an accessible resource for anyone teaching what has come to be called the “Plato to NATO” course, has no like in the English language, and for many years to come it will provide a handy r…
The Banality of Evil Reconsidered
Historians have mostly, and with good reason, examined the industrial exploitation of concentration-camp prisoners from the standpoint of its injustice. Studies have covered either the politics which led to forced labor, the involvement of individual factories where prisoners suffered starvation and death, or the harrowing experience of the Victims. Yet few have considered forced labor as the perpetrators saw it: coldly, as a colossal managerial …
The Puzzle of Nazi Modernism
La nature de l'organisation bureaucratique moderne et la politique de la technologie elaborees par les nazis sont analysees a partir de l'exemple d'une fabrique de ciment en Pologne
The Banality of Evil Reconsidered
Historians have mostly, and with good reason, examined the industrial exploitation of concentration-camp prisoners from the standpoint of its injustice. Studies have covered either the politics which led to forced labor, the involvement of individual factories where prisoners suffered starvation and death, or the harrowing experience of the Victims. Yet few have considered forced labor as the perpetrators saw it: coldly, as a colossal managerial …
Stranger than Science Fiction
Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (New York: Crown Books, 2001) briefly achieved best-seller status soon after its publication, but sales dwindled in the face of negative reviews. While this review is also negative, it is important to note at the outset that Black addresses a significant issue, the continuing participation of American corporations in German aff…
The Puzzle of Nazi Modernism
La nature de l'organisation bureaucratique moderne et la politique de la technologie elaborees par les nazis sont analysees a partir de l'exemple d'une fabrique de ciment en Pologne
Grey-Collar Worker
Stereotypes of the banal bureaucrat as fashioned by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem have more to do with intellectuals’ anxieties about modern organisation than they have to do with the Holocaust or the institutions of genocide. Moreover, the overwhelming influence of Arendt’s interpretation has paradoxically helped to muzzle the voice of Holocaust survivors. Institutions like Auschwitz could never have functioned without countless victims…
The Devil in the Details
What were the models for the gas chambers, and when were they first implemented? Examining technical details of the ventilation systems of the Birkenau morgues, this article argues that from the beginning of October 1941 the SS planned Morgue 1 of Crematoria II and III as a gas chamber for the extermination of human beings. The precedents were Zyklon-B chambers for delousing clothing, a technology widely known throughout a network of specialized …
The Puzzle of Nazi Modernism
La nature de l'organisation bureaucratique moderne et la politique de la technologie elaborees par les nazis sont analysees a partir de l'exemple d'une fabrique de ciment en Pologne
The Banality of Evil Reconsidered
Historians have mostly, and with good reason, examined the industrial exploitation of concentration-camp prisoners from the standpoint of its injustice. Studies have covered either the politics which led to forced labor, the involvement of individual factories where prisoners suffered starvation and death, or the harrowing experience of the Victims. Yet few have considered forced labor as the perpetrators saw it: coldly, as a colossal managerial …
Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941-1944. Organisation und Durchfuhrung eines staatlichen Massenverbrechens
A history of modern European technology
A History of Modern European Technology: The Propyläen Technikgeschichte Michael Allen (bio) In 1997, Propyläen Verlag in Berlin published a five-volume encyclopedia edited by Wolfgang König and titled, straightforwardly, Propyläen Technikgeschichte. 1 The work, an accessible resource for anyone teaching what has come to be called the “Plato to NATO” course, has no like in the English language, and for many years to come it will provide a handy r…
The Devil in the Details
What were the models for the gas chambers, and when were they first implemented? Examining technical details of the ventilation systems of the Birkenau morgues, this article argues that from the beginning of October 1941 the SS planned Morgue 1 of Crematoria II and III as a gas chamber for the extermination of human beings. The precedents were Zyklon-B chambers for delousing clothing, a technology widely known throughout a network of specialized …
Stranger than Science Fiction
Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (New York: Crown Books, 2001) briefly achieved best-seller status soon after its publication, but sales dwindled in the face of negative reviews. While this review is also negative, it is important to note at the outset that Black addresses a significant issue, the continuing participation of American corporations in German aff…
Poems in Steel
By the 1930s, the frustration of many German engineers led them into the ken of right-wing intellectuals who glorified inventing not as a rational, economic pursuit but as the manifestation of spirit and Volk. It was but a short step from there to the Nazi Party, which mixed romanticism and engineering in a heady brew of "reactionary modernism." This epithet, coined by Jeffrey Herf, has become a handy oxymoron, for it associates disreputable aspe…
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews
1University of Connecticut The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish‐Owned Property HaroldJames CambridgeCambridge University Press 2001280$25.00
The Business of Genocide
Second thoughts on Gedachtes Wohnen
(2004). Second thoughts on Gedachtes Wohnen. Philosophy & Geography: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 253-256
Architects of Annihilation
Reviewed by: Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction Michael Allen (bio) Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction. By Götz Aly and Susanne Heim, trans. A. G. Blunden. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 378. $29.95. Few books have had as much influence on Holocaust studies as Götz Aly and Susanne Heim's Vordenker der Vernichtung, published in 1991 by Fischer Verlag. That book…
Grey-Collar Worker
Stereotypes of the banal bureaucrat as fashioned by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem have more to do with intellectuals’ anxieties about modern organisation than they have to do with the Holocaust or the institutions of genocide. Moreover, the overwhelming influence of Arendt’s interpretation has paradoxically helped to muzzle the voice of Holocaust survivors. Institutions like Auschwitz could never have functioned without countless victims…
Hitler's Bombe
Reviewed by: Hitlers Bombe: Die geheime Geschichte der deutschen Kernwaffenversuche Michael Thad Allen (bio) Hitlers Bombe: Die geheime Geschichte der deutschen Kernwaffenversuche. By Rainer Karlsch. Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005. Pp. 432. €24.90. Rainer Karlsch's book is controversial, but this is to be lauded. He has had the courage to bring the methodical patience of a trained historian to a subject, the German atomic bomb, so often a…
Realms of Oblivion
On March 10, 1972, a little-known Auschwitz trial came to a rather unremarkable conclusion with the release of Fritz Ertl and Walter Dejaco. Both had served as SS architects in the Central Construction Directorate(ZBL)-Auschwitz. Both were part of a team responsible for designing and building the gas chambers of Birkenau. The District Attorneys' Office of Vienna had prepared the case against them with great ambition nearly a decade before. Prosec…
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