How long does it take to read Auschwitz?
Sybille Steinbacher
Auschwitz by Sybille Steinbacher takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 176 pages, about 48,400 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Histoire, German Prisoners and prisons, Nonfiction, Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands, History
