A History of the Dora Camp, André Sellier, translated by Stephen Wright and Susan Taponier (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2003), 547 pp., cloth 35.00
From the earliest days of the National Socialist regime, concentration camps and detention centers—whether in the form of the wilde Lager (“wild” or early camps) of 1933 or the later, more formalized sites of destruction at Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Majdanek—played a key role in the creation and mai...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 314-317 |
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| Summary: | From the earliest days of the National Socialist regime, concentration camps and detention centers—whether in the form of the wilde Lager (“wild” or early camps) of 1933 or the later, more formalized sites of destruction at Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Majdanek—played a key role in the creation and maintenance of the totalitarian state. The camps served first as instruments for incarcerating, isolating, and eliminating the putative enemies of the Nazi regime, and then during World War II as sites of economic exploitation and mass murder for the racial, political, and social victims of Hitler’s empire. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl008 |