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Himmler's Nazi concentration camp guards : rare photographs from wartime archives / Ian Baxter ; edited by Charles Markuss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baxter, Ian.
- Series:
- Images of war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel--Pictorial works.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel.
- Internment camp guards--Training of--Pictorial works.
- Internment camp guards.
- Nazi concentration camp guards--Training of--Pictorial works.
- Nazi concentration camp guards.
- Internment camp guards--Recruiting--Pictorial works.
- Nazi concentration camp guards--Recruiting--Pictorial works.
- Women internment camp guards--Pictorial works.
- Women internment camp guards.
- Women Nazi concentration camp guards--Pictorial works.
- Women Nazi concentration camp guards.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2012.
- Summary:
- This book studies the whole process of recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates. It is not an attractive subject - the conversion of human beings into sadists and murderers is bound to be shocking. But it happened under the Third Reich on a massive scale. Of the 55,000 Nazi concentration camp guards, some 3,700 were women. The book studies their behaviour with examples of individuals routinely carrying out appalling acts of cruelty alone or alongside their male counter-parts. Written and compiled by a highly experienced author, researcher and collector, the book follows the development of concentration camps form the early beginnings in the 1930s (Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, etc), through their establishment in the conquered territories of Poland and Czechoslovakia to the extermination camps of Dachau and Auschwitz. In parallel it describes, using original source material, the behavior of the guards who become in numerous cases immune to the horrors around them. The Liberation process is also described using numerous moving personal accounts of Allied personnel. Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards, with its many rare unpublished images and authoritative text, is the most comprehensive pictorial study of this shocking aspect of the Nazi regime. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Recruiting and Training 6
- Chapter 2 Early Concentration Camps 21
- Chapter 3 Reinhard Camps 39
- Chapter 4 Extermination Camp 73
- Chapter 5 Woman Concentration Camp Guards 86.
- ISBN:
- 9781848847996
- 1848847998
- OCLC:
- 805020143
- Publisher Number:
- 99951355937
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