I you we them : revealing the 'desk killers', perpetrators of crimes against humanity
Dan Gretton
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Originaltittel | [ I you we them ]
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| Omfang | 1089 sider : illustrasjoner i svart/hvitt, kart i svart/hvitt, portretter i svart/hvitt
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| Opplysninger | Book 1. Journeys into the world of the desk killer: Preface: First day, white page -- part 1. Mapping the past: Explorations : maps and the curiosity of a child's mind ; Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer and the desk killer ; How we look at history : a moment at the Liverpool Street Station -- part 2. Walking through time: Journeys with J. ; The town of organised forgetting ; Saurer : a coda... "The blind spot in the writing of history" ; Interlude in which we meet a figure ; We will be returning to... the architect in London, first trip -- part 3. The violence of a corporation: "Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues" ; From a desk in Waterloo to a cell in Port Harcourt ; The invisible corporation -- part 4. Fire and water: A hillside in Grosseto : a dream of my father (How people can kill : the first factor) ; A pool in East London (How people in organisations can kill : the second factor) -- part 5. Walking into the world of the desk killer : four journeys: The doctors of Wannsee meet in a villa by the lake ; Carpathian days ; Walking into whiteness ; The patience of a hand and a pencil. Book 2. Silence and speaking: Preface: To the West -- part 1. Survival and speaking: A hand in the desert ; The use and abuse of words : Jan Karski and Albert Speer -- part 2. Silences of the fathers: My father and his silence ; The silences of societies in the face of atrocity : Germany, France, America, Britain ; Vernichtung ; A coda : the power of history and the burning of books -- part 3. The violence of my country: A question from Günter grass ; Crow-hunting in Tasmania ; The British famine : "Slaughters done in Ireland my mere official red tape" -- part 4. The breaking of silences: Moments of seismic shift : 7 December 1970, Warsaw, 2 June 2005, Belgrade, 14 August 2004, Okakarara, 14 July 2016, Berlin ; Power and the hurricane -- part 5. Perpetrators, victims, bystanders: The arhictect on trial ; Room 519 : into darkness (How people in organisations can kill : a further four factors) ; The oilman and the broken wing ; A painting in The Hague, a farmhouse in Suffolk, a stadium in Somalia -- part 6. Civilisation/barbarism: A walk from Goethe's gartenhaus to the gates of Buchenwald : 10,166 steps ; The lawyers of Washington -- part 7. Time and love, memory and looking: Past continuous ; The wood pigeons and the train -- part 8. Opening the prisons in our minds: The architect in prison : a different man? ; Searching for Antigone in Ashford, and for languages that do not yet exist.... - Vast and revelatory, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the 'desk killers' who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era. From Albert Speer's complicity in Nazi barbarism to cases of ecocide and the deaths of activists, Gretton shines a light on the figures 'who, by giving orders, use paper or a phone or a computer to kill, instead of a gun.' Over the past twenty years, Gretton has interviewed survivors and perpetrators, and pored over archives and thousands of pages of testimony. His remarkable insight into the psychology of the desk killers is deepened by the intimate journey he travels with his readers.
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| Emner | Crimes against humanity.
Murderers - Psychology. Team murderers - Psychology. forbrytelser menneskeheten mord psykologi |
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| ISBN | 9780099592372
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