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A review by jayfr
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
5.0
“What is needed is a study that captures the complexity of the camps without fragmenting, and sets them into their wider political and cultural context without becoming reductive. But how to write such a history of the KL?”
― Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
The author has succeeded with this hauntingly accurate and beautifully researched history. Covering the start of them when the inmates were political enemies of the swift rising Nazi party to the horror found as they were liberated by the allies at the end of World War II.
Nikolaus Wachsmann holds no punches as he details every part of the camps, mostly dispassionately, as he reveals the true history of them.
I'm going to admit this was difficult to read, I lost count of the amount of times I put it down swearing that I couldn't continue before picking it back up. This is a book that should be compulsory for every student of history to read. We cannot allow anything like this to happen again.
― Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
The author has succeeded with this hauntingly accurate and beautifully researched history. Covering the start of them when the inmates were political enemies of the swift rising Nazi party to the horror found as they were liberated by the allies at the end of World War II.
Nikolaus Wachsmann holds no punches as he details every part of the camps, mostly dispassionately, as he reveals the true history of them.
I'm going to admit this was difficult to read, I lost count of the amount of times I put it down swearing that I couldn't continue before picking it back up. This is a book that should be compulsory for every student of history to read. We cannot allow anything like this to happen again.