Architects of Death
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Prussian Cremation Act (1911)
Pudenz, Eduard
R
Rees, Laurence
Reidemeister, Johanne Caroline Auguste
Reinl, Georg
background of
Romania
Römischer Kaiser (department store)
Rose, Alma
Rosen, Gross
Rote Hilfe Deutschlands
Ruge, Manfred
Russian Federation
‘Governing the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression’
S
Sachsenhausen (concentration camp)
closure of
opening of (1936)
personnel of
Sander, Fritz
background of
patent application made by
Sauckel, Fritz
Scharnweber, Horst
Schiller, Friedrich
Schlaf, Johannes
Schloss, Eva
Schmidt, Kurt
Schmidt, Rosa
Schnable, Reimund
Macht ohne Moral (Power without Morals)
Schüle, Annegret
Schultze, Karl
indictment/interrogation of
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Construction management office
Main office
personnel of
Second World War (1939–45)
Axis Invasion of Poland (1939)
Battle of Stalingrad (1941)
Eastern Front (1941–5)
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Pearl Harbor Attack (1941)
Seyffarth, Arnold
Sobibór (extermination camp)
Socialist Party of East Germany (SED)
Sommer, Martin
Soviet Union (USSR)
Butyrka Prison
Kuybyshev
Mogilev
Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Special Camp No. 7 (prison camp)
Spier, Carl Ludwig
Spindler, Dr Edmund
Stalin, Josef
Stein, Elly
family of
Stein, Ruth
family of
Stein, Leopold
family of
Sturcke, Max
Switzerland
Basel
Szaynok, Wanda
T
Tarnów Prison
Tauber, Henryk
Teichmann, Casar
Teleki, Pál
Third Reich (1933–45)
economy of
euthanasia programme of
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) (1938)
militarisation program of (1936)
Office for Administration and Economy
Office for Households and Buildings
Race Laws
Reich Cremation Law (1938)
Stormtroopers (SA)
Thüringer Allgemeine
Thüringer Gauzeitung
Thuringia State Archive
Thuringian Industrialists Society
Topf, Agnes
family of
Topf, Albert
background of
family of
Topf, Dagmar
Topf, Elke
family of
Topf, Erika
death of (1963)
Topf, Ernst Wolfgang
death of (1979)
family of
investigations targeting
Topf, Gustav
Topf, Hanna
Topf, Hans
family of
Topf, Hartmut
family of
Topf, Johann Andreas
background of
death of (1891)
family of
Topf, Johanna
Topf, Julius
family of
Topf, Karin
family of
Topf, Karl
family of
Topf, Ludwig
family of
Topf Sr, Ludwig
family of
Topf, Max Julius Ernst
Topf, Till
family of
Topf, Viktor Karl Ludwig
Topf, Wilhelm Louis (Ludwig)
Topf and Sons
cremation ovens designed by
Department B
Department D
Department E
gas chambers constructed by
growth of
Memorial
personnel of
re-founding of
works council
Topf Furnace Construction
Topfwerke Erfurt VEB
Treblinka (extermination camp)
Triebel, Friedrich
U
Ukraine
United Kingdom (UK)
United States of America (USA)
Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC)
University of Jena
Urbanczyk, Walter
V
VEB Erfurter Mälzerei- und Speicherbau (EMS/ VEB Erfurt Malting and Storage Construction)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Volkmann and Ludwig
W
Wachler, Ernst
Weimar Military Command
Weimar Republic (1918–33)
deflationary crisis (1929)
Wiemokli, Willy
background of
family of
testimony of
Windesheim, Hans
World Jewish Congress
Y
Yugoslavia
Z
Ziegenbein, Kurt
Ziereis, Franz
Zyklon B gas
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist based in London. She has written extensively for the Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, and WIRED from Africa, India, and the US, and has presented and produced for BBC Radio. Most recently, she worked with Eva Schloss, writing her Sunday Times bestselling autobiography After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Cast of characters
Introduction: The puppeteer
Chapter One: Born and bred at J. A. Topf
Chapter Two: A deal with the devil
Chapter Three: A beautiful name
Chapter Four: Buchenwald
Chapter Five: Always at your service
Chapter Six: Auschwitz
Chapter Seven: Is there anyone left to burn?
Chapter Eight: Innovators until the end
Chapter Nine: Trials and retribution
Chapter Ten: A change of scenery in the USSR
Chapter Eleven: Power without morals
Chapter Twelve: Atonement
Conclusion
Photographs
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
About the Author
Copyright
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