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7%OFFKim Wünschmann Wünschmann - Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps - 9780674967595 - V9780674967595
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Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps

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Description for Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps Hardback. Nazis began detaining Jews in camps as soon as they came to power in 1933. Kim Wunschmann reveals the origin of these extralegal detention sites, the harsh treatment Jews received there, and the message the camps sent to Germans: that Jews were enemies of the state, dangerous to associate with and fair game for acts of intimidation and violence. Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 728.

Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research

Auschwitz—the largest and most notorious of Hitler’s concentration camps—was founded in 1940, but the Nazis had been detaining Jews in camps ever since they came to power in 1933. Before Auschwitz unearths the little-known origins of the concentration camp system in the years before World War II and reveals the instrumental role of these extralegal detention sites in the development of Nazi policies toward Jews and in plans to create a racially pure Third Reich.

Investigating more than a dozen camps, from the infamous Dachau, Buchenwald, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674967595
SKU
V9780674967595
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About Kim Wünschmann Wünschmann
Kim Wünschmann is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.

Reviews for Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps
[An] excellent monograph.
Richard Evans
New York Review of Books
Based on a vast body of archival materials, including SS reports, newspaper articles, prisoner letters and post-war memoirs, Before Auschwitz is a remarkable, humane, thought-provoking book.
David Motadel
Times Literary Supplement
[Wünschmann’s] prize-winning study offers an original, thorough analysis of the Jewish prisoners in ... Read more

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