Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Studies at the Central European University
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (2004-2005) 27-39
Keywords:
Nazi concentration camps
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Engages in an initial attempt to fill gaps in the knowledge of the history of Nazi camps, e.g. specific organizational structures and forms, purposes and dimensions of the camps, and how they functioned. Notes the existence of a world of other camps parallel to the concentration camp system. These "coercion camps" included "youth protection camps", the 400 ghettos for Jews on Polish soil that were a "waiting room" for the extermination camps, gypsy camps, and POW camps. Discusses labor re-education camps, police custody camps, ghettos, forced labor camps for Jews (including the Trawniki camp), and extermination camps. While functioning under the authority of various bodies, the coercion camps had many features in common with the centrally organized concentration camp empire, which eventually absorbed some of the other camps. Amidst the uncontrolled proliferation of the camp world there was a common chaos that, along with an elaborate bureaucracy, created a confused, complex universe that was exploitative, annihilating, and murderous.
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