Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence
In the popular imagination Dachau is, after Auschwitz, perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the National Socialist concentration camp system. Indeed, films of Allied military forces liberating concentration camps in Germany in 1945 had an immediate and powerful impact on world opinion. Pictures o...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 363-365 |
| Review of: | Dachau and the SS (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) (Westermann, Edward B.)
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| Summary: | In the popular imagination Dachau is, after Auschwitz, perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the National Socialist concentration camp system. Indeed, films of Allied military forces liberating concentration camps in Germany in 1945 had an immediate and powerful impact on world opinion. Pictures of skeletal survivors juxtaposed with piles of human corpses stacked like cordwood in barracks or railway cars continue to serve for many as the iconic images of the Holocaust. In the aftermath of the war, Auschwitz came to epitomize the labor and extermination camp system, but Christopher Dillon's important study takes us back to the beginning by tracing the origins of the labor camp system to the creation of Dachau in March 1933. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw046 |