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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann

How did the Nazi concentration camps grow from early sites of terror into a vast system, and what happened inside them?

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Author
Nikolaus Wachsmann

Why read it

  • You will see that the camps have a longer history than the famous liberation images suggest
  • You will understand how violence begun as an emergency measure became a lasting institution
  • You will learn how prisoners lived, worked and resisted, and why freedom did not end their suffering

Who it is for

  • A history reader who wants more than the liberation photographs
  • A teacher preparing to teach this history honestly
  • Someone who wants to understand how a modern state organised terror

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. A BLOODY SPRING AND SUMMER
  3. COORDINATION
  4. OPEN TERROR
  5. A PERMANENT EXCEPTION
  6. THE CAMP SS
  7. PRISONER WORLDS
  8. SOCIAL OUTSIDERS
  9. FORCED LABOR
  10. JEWS
  11. THE CAMP SS AT WAR
  12. ROAD TO PERDITION
  13. SCALES OF SUFFERING
  14. KILLING THE WEAK
  15. EXECUTING SOVIET POWS
  16. MURDEROUS UTOPIAS
  17. AUSCHWITZ AND THE NAZI FINAL SOLUTION
  18. FACTORIES OF DEATH
  19. GENOCIDE AND THE KL SYSTEM
  20. JEWISH PRISONERS IN THE EAST
  21. SS ROUTINES
  22. PLUNDER AND CORRUPTION
  23. OSWALD POHL AND THE WVHA
  24. SLAVE LABOR
  25. “GUINEA PIGS”
  26. IN EXTREMIS
  27. SATELLITE CAMPS
  28. THE OUTSIDE WORLD
  29. COERCED COMMUNITIES
  30. KAPOS
  31. DEFIANCE
  32. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
  33. APOCALYPSE
  34. THE FINAL WEEKS
  35. Epilogue
  36. TABLE 1. Daily Inmate Numbers in the SS Concentration Camps, 1934–45
  37. TABLE 2. Prisoner Deaths in SS Concentration Camps
  38. TABLE 3. SS Ranks, with Army Equivalents
  39. Photographs

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