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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann

2

awards won

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#218 of 3,809 books · #75 in History

Won the Wolfson History Prize (2016) and the Mark Lynton History Prize (2016). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

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. Combining the political and the personal, Wachsmann examines the organisation of such an immense genocidal machine, whilst drawing a vivid picture of life inside the camps for the individual prisoner. The book gives voice to those typically forgotten in Nazi history: the 'social deviants', criminals and unwanted ethnicities that all faced the terror of the camps. Wachsmann explores the practice of institutionalised murder and inmate collaboration with the SS selectively ignored by many historians. Pulling together a wealth of in-depth research, official documents, contemporary studies and the evidence of survivors themselves, KL is a complete but accessible narrative.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9781408705568
Genre
History
Topics
Nazi concentration campsHolocaustWorld War II Germany

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