Title: Inside concentration camps : social life at the extremes /
Authors: Suderland, Maja.; Spengler, Jessica.
Publisher: Polity Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany; Concentration camps Germany Sociological aspects.; Concentration camp inmates Germany Social conditions.; National socialism and sociology.
Abstract: Maja Suderland takes the reader inside Nazi concentration camps and examines the everyday social life of prisoners - their daily activities and routines, the social relationships and networks they created and the strategies they developed to cope with the harsh conditions and the brutality of the guards.
Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Topic and research question -- The "Third Reich" and the Nazi Concentration Camps -- Part II: Sociological avenues of inquiry -- Introductory comments on the disciplinary context and methods -- Sociological orientations -- Part III: The social world of the Nazi Concentration Camps -- Camp life -- Prisoner society -- Part IV: Social libido -- The constitution of social identity in the concentration camps.