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2010 Choice Recommended Title. ! a goldmine of information on a topic that, contrary to conventional opinion, still remains shrouded in mystery and obscurity despite the enormous growth in research on the Holocaust in recent years. This volume, edited by Jane Caplan and Nikolaus Wachsmann with contributions by nine of the most respected German, British, and American historians in the field, is by far the best and most up-to-date historical introduction to the camps now available. Even for someone who has spent a lifetime studying Nazi Germany, this volume contains quite a few surprises... aThe coverage of the camps is remarkably detailed for so slim a volume, and the documentation is excellent throughout...This book is also a gripping read, despite its unhappy subject. No one can read this book without being profoundly affected. Roderick Stackelberg, Gonzaga University, USA A remarkably lucid collection of essays on Nazi concentration campsa written by leading international scholars in the field. This 'new history', splendidly edited, provides important new insights into the debates about Nazi terror, the Holocaust and the wider nature of the Third Reich. Anaauthoritative and compelling volume that will become essential reading for students and lecturers of modernaGerman history. David Welch, University of Kent, UK

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Nikolaus Wachsmann is Reader in modern European history at Birkbeck College, London, where he currently directs a major research project on the history of the Nazi concentration camps. He has written widely on terror and repression in the Third Reich, including the prize-winning book Hitler's Prisons (2004). Jane Caplan is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and a professor of modern European history. She has published extensively on the history of National Socialism, and is currently working on a study of registration, identification and recognition in Nazi Germany.

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