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amourdevin 's review for:
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
by Nikolaus Wachsmann
An important work of scholarship utilizing hundreds of sources to document the rise and fall of the concentration camps, this book was a revelation in many ways to me. The proto-KL began in 1933 and was far more dynamic and varied than popular historical memory reveals.
This is also a genuinely horrifying book to read - both the treatment of the prisoners and the realization that most people involved were normal, i.e. not psychopathic sadists. The meticulous documentation of prisoner treatment and SS culture and training is brutal, but also helped explain to me how ordinary humans could do such awful things.
This is also a genuinely horrifying book to read - both the treatment of the prisoners and the realization that most people involved were normal, i.e. not psychopathic sadists. The meticulous documentation of prisoner treatment and SS culture and training is brutal, but also helped explain to me how ordinary humans could do such awful things.