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Wachsmann, Nikolaus.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Europe.
Concentration camps -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany.
Nazi concentration camps.
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Wachsmann, Nikolaus.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Europe.
Concentration camps -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany.
Nazi concentration camps.
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KL : a history of the Nazi concentration camps / Nikolaus Wachsmann.
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Wachsmann, Nikolaus.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Call #:
940
.53185
W114k
Subjects
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Europe.
Concentration camps -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany.
Nazi concentration camps.
ISBN:
9780374118259 (hc.)
0374118256 (hc.)
Alternate title:
K.L. : a history of the Nazi concentration camps
History of the Nazi concentration camps
Nazi concentration camps
Konzentrationslager : a history of the Nazi concentration camps
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
865 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [631]-826) and index.
Contents:
Early camps. A bloody spring and summer ; Coordination ; Open terror -- The SS camp system. A permanent exception ; The Camp SS ; Prisoner worlds -- Expansion. Social outsiders ; Forced labor ; Jews -- War. The Camp SS at war ; Road to perdition ; Scales of suffering -- Mass extermination. Killing the weak ; Executing Soviet POWs ; Murderous utopias -- Holocaust. Auschwitz and the Nazi final solution ; Factories of death ; Genocide and the KL system -- Anus mundi. Jewish prisoners in the East ; SS routines ; Plunder and corruption -- Economics and extermination. Oswald Pohl and the WVHA ; Slave labor ; "Guinea pigs" -- Camps unbound. In extremis ; Satellite camps ; The outside world -- Impossible choices. Coerced communities ; Kapos ; Defiance -- Death or freedom. The beginning of the end ; Apocalypse ; The final weeks.
Summary:
"In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe were at the heart of the Nazi campaign of repression and intimidation. The importance of the camps in terms of Nazi history and our modern world cannot be questioned. Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann is the first historian to write a complete history of the camps. Combining the political and the personal, Wachsmann will examine the organisation of such an immense genocidal machine, whilst drawing a vivid picture of life inside the camps for the individual prisoner. The book will give a voice to those typically forgotten in Nazi history: the 'social deviants', criminals and unwanted ethnicities that all faced the terror of the camps. Wachsmann will explore the practise of institutionalised murder and inmate collaboration with the SS selectively ignored by many historians. Nikolaus Wachsmann is a professor of Modern German History at the University of London and the author of Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany"--Provided by publisher.
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