The Society of Terror: Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps. During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish
political prisoner in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners who were
willing to go into exile and to the help of friends on the outside who helped him obtain a visa. He fled to Sweden before coming to the United States in 1941. In 1943, he completed The The
Society of Terror, based on his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald. He embarked on a long career teaching sociology and statistics at universities in the United States and later in Vienna until
his death in September 2001.
After liberation, the horrific images of the extermination camps abounded from Dachau, Buchenwald, and other places. Neurath's chillingly factual discussion of his experience as an
inmate and his astute observations of the conditions and the social structures in Dachau and
Buchenwald captivate the reader, not only because of their authenticity, but also because
of the work's proximity to the events and the absence of influence of later interpretations. His account is unique also because of the exceptional links Neurath establishes between personal
experience and theoretical reflection, the persistent oscillation between the distanced and sober view of the scientist and that of the prisoner.
ISBN-13 : 9781594510953
Publisher : Paradigm Publishers
Publication date : 03/28/2005
Author : Nico Stehr (Editor), Paul Neurath, Christian Fleck (Editor)
Meet the Author
Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany. During the academic year 2002/2003 he was Paul F. Lazarsfeld Professor at the
University of Vienna. Among his recent book publications are Knowledge and Economic Conduct: The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy (University of Toronto Press, 2002).
Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner in the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald from April 1, 1938 to May 27, 1939.
Christian Fleck is professor of Sociology, Universitaet Graz, Austria.
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