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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, author.
- Series:
- Images of war.
- Images of war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel--Pictorial works.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
- Nazi concentration camp guards--Training of--Pictorial works.
- Nazi concentration camp guards.
- Nazi concentration camp guards--Recruiting--Pictorial works.
- Women Nazi concentration camp guards--Pictorial works.
- Women Nazi concentration camp guards.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (107 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- This book is the most thorough study yet of 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 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.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 counter-parts.The book follows the development of
- Contents:
- ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - Recruiting and Training""; ""Chapter Two - Early Concentration Camps""; ""Chapter Three - Reinhard Camps""; ""Chapter Four - Extermination Camp""; ""Chapter Five - Woman Concentration Camp Guards""; ""Appendix - List of Camps""; ""Glossary and Abbreviations""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783034970
- 1783034971
- OCLC:
- 854975022
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