Monday, June 20, 2016

This brilliant book sheds new light on Nazi Germany

The death camps further east in German-occupied Poland (Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka), on the other hand, operated outside the concentration camp system. They did not imprison people and force them to work. Their sole purpose was to kill the Jews – close on two million, nearly all from Poland – as quickly as possible. But within the KL system itself, Jews were a minority among the prisoners. The Holocaust, as Wachsmann emphasises, mainly took place outside the concentration camps

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/wolfson-history-prize-2016-this-brilliant-book-sheds-new-light-o/

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