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One long night : a global history of concentration camps / Andrea Pitzer.

by Pitzer, Andrea.

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Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Concentration camps -- History -- 20th century.

Detention of persons -- History -- 20th century.

9780316303590 (hc.)

x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and index.

Introduction: Sailing to Guantánamo -- Born of generals -- Death and genocide in Southern Africa -- The First World War and the war on civilians -- Gulag rising -- The architecture of Auschwitz -- Increments of evil -- Stepchildren of the gulag -- Echoes of empire -- Bastard children of the camps -- Guantánamo Bay and the world.

For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again." In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Andrea Pitzer is the author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia.

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