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Stätten nationalsozialistischer Zwangherrschaft.
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ISBN: 9783774935211 3774935211 Year: 2007 Volume: 5/13 5/13 Publisher: Bonn Habelt

Inside the vicious heart : Americans and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps
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ISBN: 0195035976 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York ; Oxford Oxford University Press


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L'organisation de la terreur : les camps de concentration
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ISBN: 2702124291 9782702124291 Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris : Calmann-Lévy,

American Prisoners of War in German Death, Concentration, and Slave Labor Camps : Germany's Lethal Policy in the Second World War
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ISBN: 077341701X 9780773417014 0773466576 9780773466579 Year: 2003 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Using 16 personal interviews, government documents from Germany and the US, the author explores the experience of American POWs who were held in German concentration, death and slave labor camps. The work provides detailed accounts that document the presence of American POWs in these camps, and explores the reasons why the US government systematically suppressed information about them. It affirms that German policy was to kill as many prisoners as possible from all the allied nations, and systematically legalized its actions. It shows that the murder of POWs in death and concentration camps wa


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Allied internment camps in Occupied Germany : extrajudicial detention in the name of denazification, 1945-1950
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ISBN: 1108852750 1108767532 1108487637 1108720730 9781108720731 9781108487634 1108852173 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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