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Chargement... Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants 1933-1945 (Images of War)par Ian Baxter
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Using many rare and unpublished images this book identifies and delves into the characters of the notorious men who were instrumental in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in World history.Through words and pictures the chilling truth emerges. In many respects these monsters were all too normal. Rudolf Hess, the Commandant of Auschwitz, was a family man and hospitable host and yet while there is no record of his committing acts of violence personally he presided over a regime that accounted for over a million deaths. Others such as Amon Goeth and Josef Kramer personally promoted violence and terror and took pleasure from ever more brutal practices. They were competitive in obtaining 'results'. While following orders from above they did not hesitate to use their own initiative in pursuit of their barbaric objectives.Every occupied country in Europe was touched by the 'Final Solution' and despite the capture, trials and punishment of these leading perpetrators the stain of man's inhumanity to man, woman and child remains ineradicable.Justice came too late for millions but the lessons learnt must never be forgotten and this book throws new light on the managers of the murderous Holocaust process. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)940.53185092243History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; Holocaust Holocaust Ghettos and Extermination CampsClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3)
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Ian Baxter has written and compiled some excellent material in Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants 1933 – 1945 and taken a new look at those who ran the camps and what life was like for them. The subject of the Commandants and those who worked within the camp complexes are usually found in academic books not accessible for many of those who want to learn more. While looking at this side of Camp life helps to illustrate how they could be so inhumane.
While set over four chapters the Introduction and explanation of the Concentration Camp system are probably the most important sections to read as it gives you the background to the four chapters. When people talk about Concentration Camps they automatically think of Auschwitz and the war, it is important to know that the system grew from 1933 for those deemed undesirable by the Nazis, not just Jews, but Gay, disabled, opposition politicians and more.
There is an excellent chapter on Camp Indoctrination which helps you to get under the skin of the motivations of commandants and Waffen-SS soldiers who worked there. There are many pictures in this book from Camps many may have no idea was part of the camp system and some of those pictures are haunting some are mundane.
It is probably the mundane pictures that hit home the most as on one side of the fence the inmates were being murdered, experimented on or worked to death, while they sat played cards or in the case of Auschwitz, had their own Country Club. The pictures of the guards and their ordinary lives set in a juxtaposition of the inmates is what makes the book so haunting. While the book is haunting it is also an excellent addition to the Holocaust Canon. (