Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany

by Nikolaus Wachsmann

Book Overview

State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women: political opponents, 'racial aliens' and many other social outsiders. For most of the Nazi era, these prisons held more inmates than SS concentration camps. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons and their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and operated this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300217293
• ISBN13: 9780300217292
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"