A review by krissyranae
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann

5.0

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So I read the hard stuff, and oof was this a hard read. But it's one of those books that while you're reading it you find yourself thinking, 'Everyone should read this,' because there is so much there that doesn't find it's way into the WWII docs, and our history classes. Pre war camps are so rarely talked about, and their victims so rarely honored. This book starts at the beginning, and it goes past the end. One of the things I really like about this book is that they name the names of the prisoners. They don't just say "this many people died at this camp at this time" they say "this many people died, this is the name of one of them, this is a little about his family". This is a hard book, but an important one. I think you should read it.