CAMP WOMEN: The Female Auxiliaries Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System

The Camp Women is the first complete resource volume devoted to theSS-Aufseherinnen - the female guards of the German concentration camps during World War II. Although no directory, database, or index on the subject has ever existed, Daniel Patrick Brown has taken the bank records of the concentration camp designated for women, Ravensbruck, to begin to catalogue all of these overseers who can be documented.Further, with added data from the German Federal Archives in Berlin, the Polish State Museum in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), and the Central Office (for prosecution of Nazi war crimes) in Ludwigsburg, essential material on these women has finally been synthesized into this invaluable tool for subsequent research on the female guards.In addition, the role of the girl’s youth organization in developing future overseers, and the eventual recruitment, training, and employment of these women is likewise examined.Because of their participation in the slaughter camps, a number of female overseers were tried, convicted, and executed following the war.This aspect of their organization’s brief history is also analyzed.Finally, a section of photographs and maps will provide the reader with some heretofore unseen data. Professor Brown’s timely work fills a void in the terrible annals of Nazism: at last, the women guards and their crimes are subject to public scrutiny.

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Product Code:	6054
Author:	Daniel Patrick Brown
ISBN:	0 7643 1444 0
Format:	288pp, over 50 b/w photographs, documents, hb.
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