Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers

Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers
Author :
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Total Pages : 174
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781526799968
ISBN-13 : 1526799960
Rating : 4/5 (960 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers by : Ian Baxter

Download or read book Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers written by Ian Baxter and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis’ vast concentration camp network and, later, the ‘Final Solution’ programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of ‘overseers’ minimised costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three principal groups of ‘helpers’: Sonderkommandos, Kapos and Trawniki. The Sonderkommandos’ duties included unloading Jews from trains, collecting their possessions and allocating work details. Under SS supervision, they also ran the gas chambers and crematoria. The Kapos oversaw the Sonderkommandos. Many were originally prisoner functionaries recruited from violent criminal gangs and had a well-deserved reputation for brutality. The third group, known as Trawniki or Trawnikimänner, were Central and Eastern European collaborators recruited from Russian POW camps. While some served in a military capacity, others played an instrumental role in the Holocaust programme, rounding up and transporting Jews from the ghettos to the concentration camps. The graphic images and text of this Images of War series work demonstrate that the ‘overseer’ system was extensive and effective as its members competed without scruple to maintain the favour of their SS masters while pitting victim against victim.


Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers Related Books

Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers
Language: en
Pages: 174
Authors: Ian Baxter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-23 - Publisher: Pen and Sword Military

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Nazis’ vast concentration camp network and, later, the ‘Final Solution’ programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of
KL
Language: en
Pages: 637
Authors: Nikolaus Wachsmann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-14 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of
Hitler’s Death Camps in Occupied Poland
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Ian Baxter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-28 - Publisher: Pen and Sword Military

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Covers the six principal extermination camps in Nazi occupied Poland; a sobering reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Nearly 80 years on, the concept and s
Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards
Language: en
Pages: 157
Authors: Ian Baxter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-19 - Publisher: Casemate Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“A chilling study of the . . . recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates.”—Inscale.o
Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Elissa Mailänder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-01 - Publisher: MSU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How did “ordinary women,” like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder examine