TY - BOOK ID - 85463824 TI - Allied internment camps in Occupied Germany : extrajudicial detention in the name of denazification, 1945-1950 PY - 2020 SN - 1108852750 1108767532 1108487637 1108720730 9781108720731 9781108487634 1108852173 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Prisoner-of-war camps KW - Concentration camps KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Prisoners of war KW - Denazification KW - Military government KW - Military rule KW - Public administration KW - Civil-military relations KW - Military occupation KW - Reconstruction (1939-1951) KW - Death camps KW - Detention camps KW - Extermination camps KW - Internment camps KW - Detention of persons KW - Military camps KW - P.O.W. camps KW - POW camps KW - Prisons KW - History KW - Prisoners and prisons, German. KW - Housing KW - Germany KW - Nazi concentration camps KW - Concentration camps, Nazi KW - Death camps, Nazi KW - Extermination camps, Nazi KW - Nazi death camps KW - Nazi extermination camps KW - Incarceration camps KW - Prisoner-of-war camps - Germany - History - 20th century KW - Concentration camps - Germany - History - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German KW - Prisoners of war - Germany - History - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - Germany KW - Denazification - Germany - History - 20th century KW - Military government - Germany - History - 20th century KW - Prisonnier de guerre KW - Camp de concentration KW - XXe s., 1901-2000 KW - Guerre mondiale, 2e, 1939-1945 KW - Dénazification KW - Gouvernement militaire KW - Allemagne KW - Germany - History - 1945-1955 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85463824 AB - Between 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration camps. One third of detainees died, prompting comparisons with Nazi terror. But what about the western zones, where the Americans, British, and French also detained hundreds of thousands of Germans without trial? This first in-depth study compares internment by all four occupying powers, asking who was interned, how they were treated, and when and why they were arrested and released. It confirms the incomparably appalling conditions and death rates in the Soviet camps but identifies similarities in other respects. Andrew H. Beattie argues that internment everywhere was an inherently extrajudicial measure with punitive and preventative dimensions that aimed to eradicate Nazism and create a new Germany. By recognising its true nature and extent, he suggests that denazification was more severe and coercive but also more differentiated and complex than previously thought. ER -