Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939

Christian Goeschel teaches modern European history at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author of Suicide in Nazi Germany. Nikolaus Wachsmann teaches modern German history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany and coeditor of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Prewar Nazi Concentration CampsTranslator's NoteList of Abbreviations1. The Early Camps, 1933-19341.1. The Nazi Regime and the Camps1.2. Life and Death Inside1.3. The Prisoners1.4. The Camps and the Public2. The SS Concentration Camp System2.1. Heinrich Himmler and the Creation of the SS Camp System2.2. Ways into the Concentration Camps2.3. The Camps in the Nazi Web of Terror2.4. The SS Economy and the Camps3. Running the Camps3.1. Theodor Eicke and the Concentration Camps3.2. The Leaders of the Camp SS3.3. Rank-and-File Guards4. Life and Death in the Camps4.1. Daily Rituals and General Conditions4.2. Self-Assertion4.3. Violence and Punishment5. Prisoner Groups5.1. Prisoner Categories5.2. Political Prisoners5.3. Social Outsiders5.4. Jews5.5. Women6. The Camps and the Public6.1. The Camps in Nazi Propaganda6.2. Foreign Views on the Camps6.3. The Camps and German SocietyTimelineAppendix A: Daily Inmate Numbers in SS Concentration Camps, 19351939Appendix B: SS Ranks and Equivalents in the Wehrmacht and the U.S. ArmyNotesBibliographyIndex