Nikolaus Wachsmann
Forfatter af KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Om forfatteren
Nikolaus Wachsmann is a professor of modern European history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the prizewinning Hitler's Prisons and a joint editor of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories.
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The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them (1960) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver; Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 559 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Wachsmann, Nikolaus
- Fødselsdato
- 1971
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Germany
- Land (til kort)
- Germany
- Fødested
- Munich, Germany
- Uddannelse
- London School of Economics (BS)
Cambridge University (MPhil)
University of London (PhD|History|2001)
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To say this book is disturbing is an understatement. That doesn't make it a bad book, but it was difficult to read. It was a very long book, filled with atrocity after atrocity, hour after hour. Just when you thought you've heard the the worst thing possible... it gets worse.
Again, that doesn't make this a bad book. If you want a historically accurate account of the evolution of concentration camps in Nazi Germany (and territories), this is the book you should read.
And, yes... reading of the beginning stages of Hitler's rise and how he was able to encourage inhumane treatment of entire groups of people... I couldn't help but notice the parallels to the world today, and how the far-right leaders speak of their perceived "enemies".… (mere)