Routledge Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories

This comprehensive volume by Routledge offers the first overview of recent scholarship that has transformed how concentration camps are studied over the last two decades. The notorious camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had been incarcerated in the camps by the end of the Second World War, with at least two million losing their lives. This book presents essential new historical perspectives on this dark chapter of twentieth-century history.