Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943–August 1944, Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Sarah Gensburger (New York: Berghahn, 2011), 180 pp., hardcover, 70.00/£40.00
In this fascinating book, Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Sarah Gensburger have rescued from the “memory hole” the intriguing story of three work camps that operated from July 1943 through August 1944 in the heart of Paris. The task of the internees in Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano (technically sub-camps o...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 152-154 |
| Review of: | Nazi Labour Camps in Paris (Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2013) (Sweets, John F.)
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| Summary: | In this fascinating book, Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Sarah Gensburger have rescued from the “memory hole” the intriguing story of three work camps that operated from July 1943 through August 1944 in the heart of Paris. The task of the internees in Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano (technically sub-camps of Drancy) was to unload, sort, and crate for shipment to Germany property the Germans pillaged from Jewish apartments in Paris and (to a lesser extent) other cities in France. As the authors point out, German National Socialism was “in part an immense looting project, carried out on a pan-European scale” (p. 7). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct016 |