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Document Type: | Book |
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David Wingeate Pike; Mazal Holocaust Collection. |
ISBN: | 0415227801 9780415227803 |
OCLC Number: | 42912455 |
Description: | xxiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. I. The SS archipelago. 1. Captives in the Channel Islands. 2. Deported to the Stalags. 3. The Spaniards and the KZ universe. 4. Classification and stratification. 5. Opposing programmes: extenuation versus extermination. 6. Everyday life in the KZ. 7. Oranienburg, Buchenwald and Mauthausen compared. 8. The survival of the evidence -- pt. II. Mauthausen, Category Three. 1. The arrival. 2. The outer circle: the SS staff. 3. The inner circle: the Kapos. 4. The first Spanish contingents. 5. International friction and the brothel. 6. The Spaniards as seen by others. 7. The paradox of entertainment. 8. The Revier, antechamber of death. 9. The quarry and the 186 steps. 10. Local Kommandos. 11. The Nebenlager. |
Series Title: | Routledge/Cañada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain. |
Responsibility: | David Wingeate Pike. |
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Abstract:
This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible in Nazi Germany. An outstanding contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.
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'This book not only illuminates the subject of Spanish political prisoners in Mauthausen, but increases greatly our knowledge about Mauthausen ... and points to how much more can and needs to be researched about the Dutch Sephardim in the Holocaust ... this book is a model for the history of non-Jewish political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps' - Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2001 Read more...
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