Description
Book SynopsisRevealing primary documents on the crucial origins of the Nazi concentration camp system in the prewar years between 1933 and 1939.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Prewar Nazi Concentration Camps
Translator's Note
List of Abbreviations
1. The Early Camps, 1933-1934
1.1. The Nazi Regime and the Camps
1.2. Life and Death Inside
1.3. The Prisoners
1.4. The Camps and the Public
2. The SS Concentration Camp System
2.1. Heinrich Himmler and the Creation of the SS Camp System
2.2. Ways into the Concentration Camps
2.3. The Camps in the Nazi Web of Terror
2.4. The SS Economy and the Camps
3. Running the Camps
3.1. Theodor Eicke and the Concentration Camps
3.2. The Leaders of the Camp SS
3.3. Rank-and-File Guards
4. Life and Death in the Camps
4.1. Daily Rituals and General Conditions
4.2. Self-Assertion
4.3. Violence and Punishment
5. Prisoner Groups
5.1. Prisoner Categories
5.2. Political Prisoners
5.3. Social Outsiders
5.4. Jews
5.5. Women
6. The Camps and the Public
6.1. The Camps in Nazi Propaganda
6.2. Foreign Views on the Camps
6.3. The Camps and German Society
Timeline
Appendix A: Daily Inmate Numbers in SS Concentration Camps, 19351939
Appendix B: SS Ranks and Equivalents in the Wehrmacht and the U.S. Army
Notes
Bibliography
Index
