| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : map |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jane Caplan and Nikolaus Wachsmann -- The dynamics of destruction : the development of the concentration camps, 1933-1945 / Nikolaus Wachsmann -- The concentration camp personnel / Karin Orth -- Social life in an unsocial environment : the inmates' struggle for survival / Falk Pingel -- Gender and the concentration camps / Jane Caplan -- The public face of the camps / Karola Fings -- Work and extermination in the concentration camps / Jens-Christian Wagner -- The Holocaust and the concentration camps / Dieter Pohl -- The death marches and the final phase of Nazi genocide / Daniel Blatman -- The afterlife of the camps / Harold Marcuse |
| Summary |
Offers an overview of the scholarship that has changed the way the concentration camp system is studied over the years |
| Notes |
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Nikolaus Wachsmann is Reader in modern European history at Birkbeck College, London, where he currently directs a major research project on the history of the Nazi concentration camps. He has written widely on terror and repression in the Third Reich, including the prize-winning book Hitler's Prisons (2004). Jane Caplan is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and a professor of modern European history. She has published extensively on the history of National Socialism, and is currently working on a study of registration, identification and recognition in Nazi Germany |
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Print version record |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Nazi concentration camps -- Germany.
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Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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HISTORY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Internment camps
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Nazi concentration camps
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Nazi concentration camp inmates
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Caplan, Jane.
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Wachsmann, Nikolaus.
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| ISBN |
9780203865200 |
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0203865200 |
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9780415426503 |
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0415426502 |
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9781135263225 |
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1135263221 |
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9781135263171 |
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1135263175 |
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9781135263218 |
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1135263213 |
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