Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi GermanyState prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and operated this system of brutal legal terror. Nikolaus Wachsmann describes the operation and function of legal terror in the Third Reich and brings Nazi prisons to life through the harrowing stories of individual inmates. Drawing on a vast array of archival materials, he traces the series of changes in prison policies and practice that led eventually to racial terror, brutal violence, slave labour, starvation, and mass killings. Wachsmann demonstrates that ordinary legal officials were ready collaborators who helped to turn courts and prisons into key components in the Nazi web of terror. And he concludes with a discussion of the whitewash of the Nazi legal system in post-war West Germany. |
Contents
VII | 17 |
VIII | 18 |
IX | 22 |
X | 27 |
XI | 30 |
XII | 36 |
XIII | 46 |
XIV | 54 |
XXXVI | 218 |
XXXVII | 227 |
XXXVIII | 228 |
XXXIX | 237 |
XL | 248 |
XLI | 257 |
XLII | 258 |
XLIII | 262 |
XV | 65 |
XVI | 67 |
XVII | 68 |
XVIII | 71 |
XIX | 83 |
XX | 101 |
XXI | 112 |
XXII | 113 |
XXIII | 128 |
XXIV | 139 |
XXV | 149 |
XXVI | 156 |
XXVII | 165 |
XXIX | 171 |
XXX | 176 |
XXXI | 184 |
XXXII | 189 |
XXXIII | 191 |
XXXIV | 192 |
XXXV | 208 |
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Aichach Altreich asocial BA Berlin BayHSTA BIGefK Brandenburg-Görden brutal castration Communist concentration camps convicted crime death deutschen Deutschland Dritten Reich Emsland Emsland camp Engert example Frankfurt am Main Franz Gürtner Freisler German German prison Gestapo governor Gruchmann GSTA Gürtner habitual criminals Hamburg Himmler Hitler homosexual ibid idem imprisonment included incorporated territories incorrigible individual inside penal institutions Jews judges June Justizministerium Kriminalpolizei legal apparatus legal authorities legal officials legal system Ministry of Justice MSchriftKrim Munich murder Nationalsozialismus Nazi Germany Nazi terror Nazism offenders OLG Jena penal policy People's Court Poles police political prisoners prison administration prison authorities prison camps prison doctor prison labour prison officials prison service prisons and penitentiaries prosecutors punishment racial Reform regime Reich Ministry release reprinted RJM to Generalstaatsanwälte Roland Freisler Schlegelberger security confinement sentences Sondergerichte StAMü sterilisation Strafgefangenenlager Strafvollzug Straubing ThHSTAW Thierack Third Reich transfer Vermerk Vernehmung warders Weimar Republic Widerstand
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Page 4 - the Germans generally turned out to be proud and pleased that Hitler and his henchmen were putting away certain kinds of people who did not fit in, or who were regarded as "outsiders",