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Book SynopsisDan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Prologue Introduction: Tracing the Holocaust 1: Tracing the Tracers: The History and Politics of Tracing 2: Discoveries: Tracing Stories 3: Slaves for the Reich: The Nazi Sub-camp Systems of Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen 4: Columns of Misery: Death Marches and Liberation 5: The Legion of the Lost 6: Survivors, Displaced Persons, Refugees: The Searchers and the Searched For 7: Tracing Survival 8: Europe's Missing Children Conclusion: The ITS and Holocaust Consciousness