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Before Auschwitz: The Formation of the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-9
Ist Teil von
Journal of contemporary history, 2010-07, Vol.45 (3), p.515-534
Ort / Verlag
London, England: Sage Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the concentration camps, the Nazis pioneered new methods of mass detention, abuse and extermination, driven by a lethal mix of extreme nationalism, bio-politics and racial anti-Semitism. During the short lifespan of the Third Reich, little more than 12 years, millions of prisoners were taken to concentration camps run by the SS, and subjected to humiliation and degradation, dirt and disease, fear and hunger, ruthless discipline and random violence, forced labour and mass murder. There was no blueprint for the concentration camp when the Nazis came to power in January 1933, just as there were no precise Nazi plans on how to implement their ideology. This explains the jumble of ideas which influenced the early camps, the administrative chaos that characterised their establishment and their varied operation until the Nazi regime had consolidated itself.