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Book Synopsis Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers by : Ian Baxter
Download or read book Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers written by Ian Baxter and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis’ vast concentration camp network and, later, the ‘Final Solution’ programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of ‘overseers’ minimised costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three principal groups of ‘helpers’: Sonderkommandos, Kapos and Trawniki. The Sonderkommandos’ duties included unloading Jews from trains, collecting their possessions and allocating work details. Under SS supervision, they also ran the gas chambers and crematoria. The Kapos oversaw the Sonderkommandos. Many were originally prisoner functionaries recruited from violent criminal gangs and had a well-deserved reputation for brutality. The third group, known as Trawniki or Trawnikimänner, were Central and Eastern European collaborators recruited from Russian POW camps. While some served in a military capacity, others played an instrumental role in the Holocaust programme, rounding up and transporting Jews from the ghettos to the concentration camps. The graphic images and text of this Images of War series work demonstrate that the ‘overseer’ system was extensive and effective as its members competed without scruple to maintain the favour of their SS masters while pitting victim against victim.
Book Synopsis Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards by : Ian Baxter
Download or read book Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards written by Ian Baxter and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A chilling study of the . . . recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates.”—Inscale.org The conversion of human beings into murderers and individuals routinely carrying out appalling acts of cruelty are bound to be shocking. But it happened under the Third Reich on a massive scale. This book follows the development of concentration camps from the early beginnings in the 1930s (Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen etc.), through their establishment in the conquered territories of Poland and Czechoslovakia to the extermination camps (Dachau, Auschwitz). In parallel, it describes, using original source material, the behavior of the guards who became in numerous cases immune to the horrors around them. This is well borne out by the conduct of the guards during the Liberation process, which is also movingly described using numerous personal accounts of shocked Allied personnel. Of the 55,000 Nazi concentration camp guards, some 3,700 were women. The book studies their behavior with examples along with that of their male counterparts. “These are everyday pictures of sadistic murderers. Ian Baxter should be commended on this book. The concentration camps of the Second World War should never be pushed to the back of our minds. It happened and we should remember it so that it can never be allowed to happen again.”—WW2 Connection
Book Synopsis Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany by : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Download or read book Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany written by Nikolaus Wachsmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an overview of the scholarship that has changed the way the concentration camp system is studied over the years.
Book Synopsis Before Auschwitz by : Kim Wünschmann
Download or read book Before Auschwitz written by Kim Wünschmann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazis began detaining Jews in camps as soon as they came to power in 1933. Kim Wünschmann reveals the origin of these extralegal detention sites, the harsh treatment Jews received there, and the message the camps sent to Germans: that Jews were enemies of the state, dangerous to associate with and fair game for acts of intimidation and violence.
Book Synopsis Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence by : Elissa Mailänder
Download or read book Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence written by Elissa Mailänder and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did “ordinary women,” like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder examines the daily work of twenty-eight women employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the concentration and death camp Majdanek/Lublin in Poland. Many female SS overseers in Majdanek perpetrated violence and terrorized prisoners not only when ordered to do so but also on their own initiative. The social order of the concentration camp, combined with individual propensities, shaped a microcosm in which violence became endemic to workaday life. The author’s analysis of Nazi records, court testimony, memoirs, and film interviews illuminates the guards’ social backgrounds, careers, and motives as well as their day-to-day behavior during free time and on the “job,” as they supervised prisoners on work detail and in the cell blocks, conducted roll calls, and “selected” girls and women for death in the gas chambers. Scrutinizing interactions and conflicts among female guards, relations with male colleagues and superiors, and internal hierarchies, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence shows how work routines, pressure to “resolve problems,” material gratification, and Nazi propaganda stressing guards’ roles in “creating a new order” heightened female overseers’ identification with Nazi policies and radicalized their behavior.
Book Synopsis The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945 by : Brewster S. Chamberlin
Download or read book The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945 written by Brewster S. Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness accounts and testimonies given at the First International Liberators Conference held in Washington, D.C. in Oct. 1981.
Download or read book KL written by Nikolaus Wachsmann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Hitler's Prisons presents an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise in the spring of 1945.
Book Synopsis Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers by : Ian Baxter
Download or read book Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers written by Ian Baxter and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis' vast concentration camp network and, later, the 'Final Solution' program made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of 'overseers' minimized costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three principal groups of 'helpers' Sonderkommandos, Kapos and Trawniki. The Sonderkommandos' duties included unloading Jews from trains, collecting their possessions and allocating work details. Under SS supervision, they also ran the gas chambers and crematoria. The Kapos oversaw the Sonderkommandos. Many were originally prisoner functionaries recruited from violent criminal gangs and had a well-deserved reputation for brutality. The third group, known as Trawniki or Trawnikimänner, were Central and Eastern European collaborators recruited from Russian POW camps. While some served in a military capacity, others played an instrumental role in the Holocaust program, rounding up and transporting Jews from the ghettos to the concentration camps. The graphic images and text of this Images of War series work demonstrate that the 'overseer' system was extensive and effective as its members competed without scruple to maintain the favor of their SS masters while pitting victim against victim.
Book Synopsis Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps by : Marc Buggeln
Download or read book Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps written by Marc Buggeln and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps examines the slave labor carried out by concentration camp prisoners from 1942 and the effect this had on the German wartime economy. This work goes far beyond the sociohistorical 'reconstructions' that dominate Holocaust studies - it combines cultural history with structural history, drawing relationships between social structures and individual actions. It also considers the statements of both perpetrators and victims, and takes the biographical approach as the only possible way to confront the destruction of the individual in the camps after the fact. The first chapter presents a comparative analysis of slave labor across the different concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau. The subsequent chapters analyse the similarities and differences between various subcamps where prisoners were utilised for the wartime economy, based on the example of the 86 subcamps of Neuengamme concentration camp, which were scattered across northern Germany. The most significant difference between conditions at the various subcamps was that in some, hardly any prisoners died, while in others, almost half of them did. This work carries out a systematic comparison of the subcamp system, a kind of study which does not exist for any other camp system. This is of great significance, because by the end of the war most concentration camps had placed over 80 percent of their prisoners in subcamps. This work therefore offers a comparative framework that is highly useful for further examinations of National Socialist concentration camps, and may also be of benefit to comparative studies of other camp systems, such as Stalin's gulags.
Book Synopsis Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, 1933–1945 by : Ian Baxter
Download or read book Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, 1933–1945 written by Ian Baxter and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using many rare and unpublished images this book identifies and delves into the characters of the notorious men who were instrumental in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in World history.Through words and pictures the chilling truth emerges. In many respects these monsters were all too normal. Rudolf Hess, the Commandant of Auschwitz, was a family man and hospitable host and yet while there is no record of his committing acts of violence personally he presided over a regime that accounted for over a million deaths. Others such as Amon Goeth and Josef Kramer personally promoted violence and terror and took pleasure from ever more brutal practices. They were competitive in obtaining 'results'. While following orders from above they did not hesitate to use their own initiative in pursuit of their barbaric objectives.Every occupied country in Europe was touched by the 'Final Solution' and despite the capture, trials and punishment of these leading perpetrators the stain of man's inhumanity to man, woman and child remains ineradicable.Justice came too late for millions but the lessons learnt must never be forgotten and this book throws new light on the managers of the murderous Holocaust process.
Book Synopsis Inside The Gates by : Dr. Richard Macdonald
Download or read book Inside The Gates written by Dr. Richard Macdonald and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Konzentrationslager (KZ) Ebensee Concentration Camp was established to house prisoners tasked to further the research and production of the V-2 missile program run by Nazi SS Officer Wernher von Braun - an American Hero. This camp was liberated on May 6, 1945 freeing almost 17,000 prisoners. The Third Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron of the Third Cavalry Group came up the road to the camp at around 10AM on that fateful Sunday; at 2:45PM, the Third Platoon of F Company opened the gates. Unfortunately for the men of these military units, together with the U.S. Army 139th Evacuation Hospital, became phantom units in historical archives. Inside the Gates details the 139th Evacuation (MASH) Hospital’s involvement in freeing the thousands of inmates in the said Austrian Concentration Camp. Book Events: June 29, 2010 TV interview, lecture and book signing with Bob Persinger, the tank commander, who opened the gate at KZ Ebensee in Rockford IL. Early September 2010 - fund raiser by volunteer military support group for Youngstown OH Air Force Base in Youngstown OH. Will have book signing with a survivor of KZ Ebensee, Fred Kubli, Jr. the 139th Evac Hospital ́s personnel clerk and myself at fund raiser. Oct 6th taped 1/2 hour TV show in Chicago which will be broadcast on November 13, 2010. On that day can see whole program on web page: www.weekendwithwhitney.com. Invited by Ebensee Zeitgeschichte Museum as speaker on May 7, 2011 in Austria at ceremony to celebrate the May 6, 1945 liberation of the Ebensee Concentration Camp. Was only American speaker Inside the Gates video trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ybaEUE3sM August 24, 2011 at Wesley Willows at 4142 Rockton Ave in Rockford IL a panel discussion with 3 US Army medical personnel liberators & a survivor from Ebensee concentration camp staring at 6:30PM in Wesley Meeting Hall. TV coverage: http://mystateline.com/fulltext-ews?nxd_id=273987&shr=addthis November 1, 2011 presentation at Camp Shelby, MS @ 10:00AM YouTube links to Chicago interview on November 13, 2010 part 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2N2hEAoGQ Part 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vm-qu2E8h0
Book Synopsis Nazi Concentration Camps: A Policy of Genocide by : Susan Meyer
Download or read book Nazi Concentration Camps: A Policy of Genocide written by Susan Meyer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentration camps, the epicenters of Nazi atrocities, represent a harrowing chapter of world and human history. Part of a highly organized system intended to decimate Europe’s Jewish population and other groups deemed undesirable by Adolf Hitler’s regime, these detention and extermination facilities enabled genocide to a degree never before seen in modern history. This volume chronicles the development of the concentration camp system and examines the various types of camps, the deplorable conditions and treatment the camps’ victims faced, and the aftermath of the Holocaust. Documentation and eyewitness accounts from survivors and camp liberators supplement the narrative and highlight the horrors of the camps.
Book Synopsis Inside the Vicious Heart by : Robert H. Abzug
Download or read book Inside the Vicious Heart written by Robert H. Abzug and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines historical narrative and analysis, first-person accounts, and photographs from official and private collections to tell the story of the liberation of German concentration camps as experienced by American soldiers and other eyewitnesses.
Book Synopsis The Theory and Practice of Hell by : Eugen Kogon
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Hell written by Eugen Kogon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to be reached intact was Buchenwald, in central Germany. American soldiers struggled to make sense of the shocking scenes they witnessed inside. They asked a small group of former inmates to draft a report on the camp. It was led by Eugen Kogon, a German political prisoner who had been an inmate since 1939. The Theory and Practice of Hell is his classic account of life inside. Unlike many other books by survivors who published immediately after the war, The Theory and Practice of Hell is more than a personal account. It is a horrific examination of life and death inside a Nazi concentration camp, a brutal world of a state within state, and a society without law. But Kogon maintains a dispassionate and critical perspective. He tries to understand how the camp works, to uncover its structure and social organization. He knew that the book would shock some readers and provide others with gruesome fascination. But he firmly believed that he had to show the camp in honest, unflinching detail. The result is a unique historical document—a complete picture of the society, morality, and politics that fueled the systematic torture of six million human beings. For many years, The Theory and Practice of Hell remained the seminal work on the concentration camps, particularly in Germany. Reissued with an introduction by Nikolaus Waschmann, a leading Holocaust scholar and author of Hilter's Prisons, this important work now demands to be re-read.
Book Synopsis Hitler's Death Camps by : Konnilyn G. Feig
Download or read book Hitler's Death Camps written by Konnilyn G. Feig and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses on the major Nazi concentration camps as defined by Heinrich Himmler; the concentration system as it evolved; the actions, reactions, and feelings of the different groups of people involved in it; and the many phases of the process of dehumanization, destruction and death"--Preface.
Book Synopsis The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939 by : Christian Goeschel
Download or read book The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939 written by Christian Goeschel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weeks after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazi regime established the first concentration camps in Germany. Initially used for real and suspected political enemies, the camps increasingly came under SS control and became sites for the repression of social outsiders and German Jews. Terror was central to the Nazi regime from the beginning, and the camps gradually moved toward the center of repression, torture, and mass murder during World War II and the Holocaust. This collection brings together revealing primary documents on the crucial origins of the Nazi concentration camp system in the prewar years between 1933 and 1939, which have been overlooked thus far. Many of the documents are unpublished and have been translated into English for the first time. These documents provide insight into the camps from multiple perspectives, including those of prisoners, Nazi officials, and foreign observers, and shed light on the complex relationship between terror, state, and society in the Third Reich.
Book Synopsis A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz by : Tuvia Friling
Download or read book A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz written by Tuvia Friling and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908Ð1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish Agency's Rescue Committee during the Holocaust and Israel's first minister of the interior. In light of the father's high placement in both Polish and Israeli politics, the denunciation of the younger Gruenbaum and his suspicious death during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war add intrigue to a controversy that really centers on the question of what constitutesÑand how do we evaluateÑmoral behavior in Auschwitz. GruenbaumÑa Jewish Kapo, a communist, an anti-Zionist, a secularist, and the son of a polarizing Zionist leaderÑbecame a symbol exploited by opponents of the movements to which he was linked. Sorting through this Rashomon-like story within the cultural and political contexts in which Gruenbaum operated, Friling illuminates key debates that rent the Jewish community in Europe and Israel from the 1930s to the 1960s.
