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Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager sind ein gängiger Begriff in der Auseinandersetzung mit der Hitler-Zeit. Aber viele Fakten, Zahlen und Zusammenhänge, die diese Lager bestimmten und der zeitgeschichtlichen Erörterung zugrunde liegen, sind noch strittig oder unerforscht. Die hier vorgelegten Studien verschiedener Autoren über eine Reihe von Lagern, von denen es bisher z.T. nur wenig gesichertes Wissen gab, sind sämtlich aus langwierigen quellenkritischen Spezialuntersuchungen erwachsen. Ihre gemeinsame Veröffentlichung ist ein Beitrag zu dem mühevollen Versuch, die Kenntnis der "von oben" her ergangenen Weisungen und Maßnahmen des NS-Regimes zu ergänzen durch die exakte Rekonstruktion der Praxis, wie sie "unten" aussah und sich in der konkreten Wirklichkeit einzelner Lager ausdrückte. Die Parallelisierung solcher Einzelforschungen vermag erst präziser zu begründen, was allgemeine Merkmale und Funktionen dieser Lager im Gefüge der NS-Herrschaft waren und welche Bedeutung lokalen Verhältnissen und Instanzen oder besonderen Anlässen und Improvisationen zukam. Schon diese Auswahl von Einzelstudien verdeutlicht, in welchem Maße sich der mit den Konzentrationslagern institutionalisierte Ausnahmezustand ungesetzlicher Gewaltanwendung auf allen Ebenen verselbständigte und ausweitete. Hinter der propagandistischen Bildfläche des nationalsozialistischen Ordnungsstaates wohl verborgen, konnte sich hier ungehemmt entfalten, was vom "Bewegungs"-Charakter des Nationalsozialismus nach 1933 übrig geblieben war: die erfindungsreiche Perfektionierung und Akkumulation rücksichtslosen Machtgebrauchs gegen immer neue und immer größere Gruppen "unerwünschter Elemente".
World War, 1939-1945 --- Concentration camps --- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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"The author provides a first hand account of his capture, imprisonment, and eventual escape from a German World War I prison camp. Evans discusses the daily existence for prisoners of war and the strategies and cooperation used to escape."
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This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French literature, genre, women's studies and the Holocaust.
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"The author, a French soldier taken prisoner by the Germans during the battle of the Somme, spent more than a year in one of the vast prison camps in Germany. The story here told is not in the form of a captive's memoirs set down in the customary reportorial style. Because of certain reasons imposed upon him by the fear of endangering friends still captive in Germany or members of the camp's personnel, the author has been obliged to clothe his account with some degree of vagueness in order to prevent the German secret service from finding the clues for which it will be searching. Furthermore, in the hope of not overloading the narrative with descriptive details common to prison camps in every country and in every modern war, he has confined himself to describing certain episodes and bringing up certain points that are especially characteristic both of French prisoners during this war and of the Germans in the period between 1940 and 1942. Although the author was forced to sacrifice a certain amount of clarity and precision to the safety of his comrades, he has at all times been careful to adhere as closely to the truth as possible in describing atmosphere, characters, and events. The truth is eloquent enough to speak for itself without any embroidery on his part. As far as regards the Germans, this book bears witness that, contrary to the propaganda which asserts that the only good German is a dead one, the French prisoners knew both good ones and bad ones. Harsh experience may have taught them that so long as the present regime continues to function, whatever the character and opinion of the individual Germans may be, taken collectively they will be unable to influence the course of events; nonetheless, the prisoners have also learned to distinguish between the Nazis and the non-Nazis, between those who are their bitter enemies, those who are neutral, and those who one day will help them"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).
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Concentration camps --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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War criminals --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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