Hitler and the Concentration Camp Commandants

Hitler and the Concentration Camp Commandants

In March 1933, a disused factory enclosed by barbed wire housed 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the close of 1945, the SS concentration camp network had evolved into a vast realm of fear. Twenty-two major camps along with more than a thousand satellite camps across Germany and Europe formed the core of the Nazi strategy of oppression and intimidation. The significance of these camps in both Nazi history and the contemporary world is unden...