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Inside Concentration Camps: Social Life at the Extremes

Door Maja Suderland

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#288384
Titel
Inside Concentration Camps: Social Life at the Extremes
Auteur
Suderland, Maja
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Cambridge : Polity
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
0745663362
ISBN13
9780745663364
Taal
Nederlands
Samenvatting

Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading conditions of life within the camps? In this highly original book Maja Suderland takes the reader inside the concentration camps and examines the everyday social life of prisoners - their daily activities and routines, the social relationships and networks they created and the strategies they developed to cope with the harsh conditions and the brutality of the guards. Without overlooking the violence of the camps, the contradictions of camp life or the elusive complexity of the multicultural prisoner society, Suderland explores the hidden social prac
... (Lees verder)tices that enabled prisoners to preserve their human dignity and create a sense of individuality and community despite the appalling circumstances. This remarkable account of social life in extreme conditions will be of great interest to students and scholars in history, sociology and the social sciences generally, as well as to a wider readership interested in the Holocaust and the concentration camps.
Pagina's
336
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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