Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume offers the first overview of the recent scholarship that has changed the way the concentration camp system is studied over the last two decades.

Author: Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/25/2009
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.08w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780415426510

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 36

About the Author

Nikolaus Wachsmann is Reader in modern European history at Birkbeck College, London, where he currently directs a major research project on the history of the Nazi concentration camps. He has written widely on terror and repression in the Third Reich, including the prize-winning book Hitler's Prisons (2004).

Jane Caplan is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and a professor of modern European history. She has published extensively on the history of National Socialism, and is currently working on a study of registration, identification and recognition in Nazi Germany.