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Portable Material Culture and Death Factory Auschwitz
2007
Papers from the Institute of Archaeology
Like any other factory, the death factory of Auschwitz consumed primary materials and produced secondary products. Unique to Auschwitz, though, is that the primary material consumed was human life; not just the life of the breathing human body, but also the material possessions associated with that life. The detritus of this most efficient genocide -clothing, jewellery, food, corpses -was appropriated and put to new uses by the SS and the prisoners. Others have recognised the various postwar
doi:10.5334/pia.302
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