Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps
Researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recently concluded that more than 40,000 camps and ghettos existed under the Nazis for varying lengths of time between 1933 and 1945. While the public greeted this finding with a gasp, scholars had long suspected that the number was this hig...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 360-362 |
| Review of: | Slave labor in Nazi concentration camps (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014) (Beorn, Waitman Wade)
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| Summary: | Researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recently concluded that more than 40,000 camps and ghettos existed under the Nazis for varying lengths of time between 1933 and 1945. While the public greeted this finding with a gasp, scholars had long suspected that the number was this high. Those working in this area of Holocaust studies have long recognized that the complex system of main camps and satellite camps allowed for a dizzying number and variety of facilities. What most of these particular facilities had in common was that their slave labor served the larger Nazi economy. Indeed, the discursive argument over whether to call these prisoners “forced” or “slave” laborers has taken some time to play out in the scholarship. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw030 |