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03348aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 0A5F5C9A2B1311E7A88D98A8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170427012749 008 150507t20162015nyuabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780374535926 020 $a 0374535922 035 $a (OCoLC)908628850 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d CDX $d DCK $d IOB $d SILO 043 $a e-gx--- 050 4 $a D804.3 $b .W325 2016 100 1 $a Wachsmann, Nikolaus, $e author. 245 10 $a KL : $b a history of the Nazi concentration camps / $c Nikolaus Wachsmann. 250 $a First paperback edition, 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $c 2016. 300 $a 865 pages, 32 unnumbered plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 631-826) and index. 505 0 $a Early camps. A bloody spring and summer ; Coordination ; Open terror -- The SS camp system. A permanent exception ; The Camp SS ; Prisoner worlds -- Expansion. Social outsiders ; Forced labor ; Jews -- War. The Camp SS at war ; Road to perdition ; Scales of suffering -- Mass extermination. Killing the weak ; Executing Soviet POWs ; Murderous utopias -- Holocaust. Auschwitz and the Nazi final solution ; Factories of death ; Genocide and the KL system -- Anus mundi. Jewish prisoners in the East ; SS routines ; Plunder and corruption -- Economics and extermination. Oswald Pohl and the WVHA ; Slave labor ; "Guinea pigs" -- Camps unbound. In extremis ; Satellite camps ; The outside world -- Impossible choices. Coerced communities ; Kapos ; Defiance -- Death or freedom. The beginning of the end ; Apocalypse ; The final weeks. 520 $a "Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called 'the gray zone.' In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system. Examining, close up, life and death inside the camps, and adopting a wider lens to show how the camp system was shaped by changing political, legal, social, economic, and military forces, Wachsmann produces a unified picture of the Nazi regime and its camps."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Concentration camps. 650 0 $a Concentration camps $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, German. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Atrocities $z Germany. 941 $a 3 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041353.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20220721010059.0 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20170427014155.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A5F5C9A2B1311E7A88D98A8DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IOBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search