Architects of Death

This World War II history is a sobering story of an industrial family’s cold efficiency behind the design of the ovens at Auschwitz. Architects of Death tells the astonishing story of how the gas chambers and crematoria that facilitated the murder and incineration of more than one million people in the Holocaust were designed not by the Nazi SS, but by a small respectable family firm of German engineers. Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birk