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Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents.

Introduction: Challenging histories -- 'The ultimate cross-cultural fertilizer' : the irony of the 'transnational local' in Anglo-German rural revivalism -- Aurel Kolnai's The war against the West and British attempts to understand Nazism before the war -- Race science, race mysticism, and the racial state -- Nazi race ideologues -- Ideologies of race : the construction and suppression of otherness in Nazi Germany -- Structure and fantasy : Holocaust perpetrators and genocide studies -- Christianstadt : slave labour and the Holocaust -- Belsen and the British -- The Iron Guard in Nazi captivity : evidence from the International Tracing Service -- Romania and the Jews in the BBC Monitoring Service reports, 1938-1948 -- Concentration camps : a global history -- The course of history : Arno J. Mayer, Gerhard L. Weinberg and David Cesarani on the Holocaust and World War II -- The return of fascism in Europe? Reflections on history and the current situation.

Nazi concentration camps are by no means the only examples of these 'extreme institutions'; Dan Stone sets out the fuller story, from the Boer War to Bosnia. He shows how different regimes have used concentration camps at times of crisis to control populations that appeared threatening, and examines their role in consciousness and identity.

In this book, Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps, and shows that it is not only 'mad dictators' who have set up camps, but instead all varieties of states, including liberal democracies, that have made use of them. Setting concentration camps against the longer history of incarceration, he explains how the ability of the modern state to control populations led to the creation of this extreme institution. Looking at their emergence and spread around the world, Stone argues that concentration camps serve the purpose, from the point of view of the state in crisis, of removing a section of the population that is perceived to be threatening, traitorous, or diseased. Drawing on contemporary accounts of camps, as well as the philosophical literature surrounding them, Stone considers the story camps tell us about the nature of the modern world as well as about specific regimes

Introduction: explaining liberation -- Liberated by the Soviets -- The Western allies -- Out of the chaos -- Displaced persons (dps) or betrayed persons (bps)? life in the dp camps -- Transitions: dps in a changing world -- Conclusion: the sorrows of liberation

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