Slave labor in Nazi concentration camps / Marc Buggeln ; translated by Paul Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buggeln, Marc, author.

Contributor:

Cohen, Paul, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuengamme (Concentration camp).

Slave labor--Germany.

Slave labor.

Forced labor--Germany.

Forced labor.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Crimes against humanity--Germany.

Crimes against humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the slave labor carried out by concentration camp prisoners from 1942 and the effect this had on the German wartime economy.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Archives List""; ""Map""; ""Introduction""; ""COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS RELATED TO THE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE SUBCAMPS""; ""PERPETRATORS AND ACTS OF VIOLENCE""; ""INMATE SOCIETY, SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES, AND ORAL HISTORY""; ""THE STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY""; ""1: Slave Labor in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1941�45""; ""CONCENTRATION CAMPS BEFORE THE WAR""; ""Labor in concentration camps before 1938""

""The development of SS business enterprises since 1938""""EXPANSION OF THE SUBCAMP SYSTEM UNTIL THE SUMMER OF 1943""; ""Initial collaborations between industry and the SS""; ""Integrating concentration camps into the labor recruitment drive""; ""Setting a new course within the concentration camp system""; ""The policy decision of September 1942""; ""Labor shortages in the wake of initial military defeats""; ""Increase in the concentration camp populations following military defeats in the winter of 1942/43""; ""New subcamps and armaments projects in the main camps""

""Reorganizing the concentration camp system: administrating sickness, death, and murder""""CONCLUSION: SLAVE LABOR AS A GENOCIDAL POLICY?""; ""2: Industry and Slave Labor�The SS as Junior Partner""; ""THE FIRST THREE SUBCAMPS BUILT FOR INDUSTRIAL FIRMS IN THE NEUENGAMME COMPLEX""; ""THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION SUBCAMP AFTER THE POLICY DECISION IN SEPTEMBER 1942""; ""THE NEGOTIATIONS IN 1944""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3: Structures of the Subcamp System""; ""THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES OF THE MAIN CAMP""; ""THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MAIN CAMP FOR THE SUBCAMPS""

""THE GENERAL SITUATION IN THE SUBCAMPS: FOOD""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-101764-7

OCLC:

896872751