Hitler's Prisons
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780300102505
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Europe - Germany; History / Germany; Sociology - General; Germany; History; Political prisoners; Prisoners; Prisons
Description: "Nikolaus Wachsmann describes the operation and function of legal terror in the Third Reich and brings Nazi prisons to life through the harrowing stories of individual inmates. Drawing on a vast array of archival materials, he traces the series of changes in prison policies and practice that led to racial abuse, brutal violence, slave labour, starvation and mass killings. Wachsmann demonstrates that 'ordinary' legal officials were ready collaborators who helped to turn courts and prisons into key components in the Nazi web of terror. He concludes with a discussion of the whitewash of the Nazi legal system in post-war West Germany."--Jacket.