Suchergebnisse

In the beginning there was violence: "protective custody" and arrests of Jews, 1933-1934 -- Inside the early concentration camps: abuse, isolation, and murder of Jews, 1933-1934 -- Her transport to the concentration camp has been ordered: arrests and imprisonment of Jewish women, 1933-1939 -- Cementing the enemy category: Jews in the evolving SS concentrations camp system, 1935-1938 -- Instruments of mass persecution: the concentration camps and anti-Jewish policy in 1938 -- The calm before the storm?: Jews in the concentration camps in 1939

Understandably, research has focused overwhelmingly on Jews in the camps of the Holocaust. But the nazis had been detaining Jews in concentration camps ever since 1933, at times in large numbers. Who were these prisoners? This article analyzes nazi policies that brought Jews into the concentration camps. It ventures into the inner structure and dynamics of one of the most heterogeneous groups of concentration camp inmates. By contrasting the perpetrators' objectives with the victims' experiences, this article will illuminate the role of the concentration camp as the ultimate means of pressure in the fatal process of turning a minority group into an outsider group: that is, the act of defining and marking the enemy which was the critical stage before the destruction of European Jewry. Furthermore, it will examine Jewish reactions to SS terror inside the camps.

Living the German Revolution 1918-19 presents new research by international scholars on a neglected yet transformative event in German history. It analyses the lived experiences of diverse social constituencies during 1918/19, focusing on their expectations, experiences, and responses to the revolution and the prospect of a new democratic republic