Himmler's Nazi concentration camp guards
TitleHimmler's Nazi concentration camp guards
Author
Call number940.547243/0033
Object number08715
Place of publicationBarnsley, South Yorkshire, England
PublisherPen and sword
Year of publication
2013
Physical description128p
MaterialBook
ISBN9781848847996
Notes[electronic resource]
Description
This book is a study of the process of recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates.We are shown the conversion of human beings into murderers, routinely carrying out appalling acts of cruelty. We follow the development of concentration camps from the early beginnings in the 1930s (Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen etc), through their establishment in Poland and Czechoslovakia to the extermination camps (Dachau, Auschwitz). It describes the behaviour of the guards who became immune to the horrors around them.