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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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by Nikolaus Wachsmann


  Gestapa

  Gestapo; Himmler and; Kristallnacht

  ghettos; Baltic; of 1939–41; of 1942–43; of 1944; of 1945; see also specific ghettos

  Gideon, Wilhelm

  Giering, Otto

  Gładysz, Antoni

  Gleiwitz

  Globocnik, Odilo

  Globocnik death camps; see also Belzec; Sobibor; Treblinka

  Glogowski, Gertrud

  Glück, Josef

  Glücks, Richard; demise of; Holocaust and; as inspector of camps; leadership style; suicide of

  Goebbels, Joseph; Kristallnacht

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  gold; dental; watches and pens

  Goldmann, Ernst

  Gorgass, Bodo

  Göring, Hermann; early camps and; Prussian camp model; trial of

  Göth, Amon

  Göttingen

  Gottschalk, Rudolf

  Grabner, Maximilian

  Gradowski, Salmen

  granite

  Grawitz, Ernst

  Great Britain; BBC; bombing raids on Germany; declaration of war on Germany; German bombing of; intelligence; liberation of camps; press; relief effort after liberation of camps; South African War concentration camps; views on KL system

  Great German Art Exhibition (1941)

  Greek Jews

  “green” Kapos

  “greens,” criminal; see also criminals

  green triangles, see “greens”

  Grodno

  Groeneveld, Alfred

  Gross, Karl Adolf

  Gross-Rosen; evacuation of; satellite camps of; Soviet POWs executed in; T-4 selections

  Grotewohl, Prime Minister

  Grünewald, Adam

  Grünwiedl, Martin

  Grynszpan, Herschel

  guards; Auschwitz; Buchenwald; Camp SS; Dachau; Death’s Head SS; “decent” punishment and; discipline of; early camps; Emsland; execution policy; gender relations; hierarchies; Kapo system; looting and corruption; in 1934–39 camps; in 1939–41 camps; in 1942–43 camps; in 1944 camps; in 1945 camps; as “political soldiers”; prisoner resistance to; recruitment and training; response to escapes; Sachsenhausen; satellite camps; sex with prisoners; soldiers as; SS routines; violence; women; see also Camp SS; specific camps and guards; SS

  Guard Troops, SS; foreigners in; recruitment and training

  Gulag

  Güntsche, Fritz

  Gürtner, Franz

  Gusen

  Gussak, Adolf

  Guttenberger, Elisabeth

  Gypsies; in Auschwitz

  Haas, Adolf

  Habsburg Empire

  Hackmann, Hermann

  Hague, The

  hair; industrial use of; shaved

  Halle

  Hamburg

  Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel

  Hammelburg

  Hammerstein

  hanging; of Bargatzky

  hanging, from post

  Hanover-Misburg

  Hanover-Stöcken

  Hart, Kitty

  Hartheim

  Hartinger, Josef

  Hassebroek, Johannes

  Haubner, Hermann

  Haulot, Arthur

  Hayes, Peter

  Hebertshausen

  Hebold, Otto

  Heilbut, Fanny

  Heilmann, Ernst

  Hein, Wincenty

  Heinen, Johann

  Heinkel

  Heinrich, Ilse

  Heissmeyer, Kurt

  Hejblum, Erko

  Hereditary Health Courts

  Herero

  Herman, Chaim

  Herrmann, Simon Heinrich

  Herskovits, Eva

  Herzberg, Abel

  Herzogenbusch; evacuation of

  Hesse

  Hessel, Stéphane

  Heuberg

  Heyde, Werner

  Heydrich, Reinhard; assassination of

  Himmler, Heinrich; anti-Jewish policy; apocalyptic worldview of; arms production and; Auschwitz and; background of; building plans; Camp SS and; as commander of reserve army; corruption and; courts and; criminal police and; Dachau and; “decent” punishment and; dominance over Prussian police; Eicke and; end of war; escapes and; “euthanasia” program and; execution policy; fastidiousness of; on female prisoners; on food; forced labor and; General Plan East; and Gestapo; Hitler and; homophobia of; human experiments and; impending defeat and; inspections of camps; Kallweit murder and; Kapo system; last meeting with Camp SS leaders; military ambitions; model camp created by; mysticism of; Niederhagen folly of; organizational restructure of camp system; party career of; “path to freedom” slogan; pogrom and; Pohl and; on public awareness of KL system; prisoner relations and; pursuit of deal with western Allies; as Reich minister of the interior; rise to power; Röhm purge and; sexual repression of; slave labor and; social outsiders pursued by; Soviet POW executions; SS taken over by; suicide of; underground camps and; vision for KL system; visits to Auschwitz

  Hindenburg, Paul von

  Hinzert

  Hirsch, Fredy

  Hirt, August

  Hitler, Adolf; anti-Semitism of; appointment as chancellor; arms production and; assassination attempts against; in Berlin bunker; Berlin Olympics and; building plans; development of “Final Solution” and; early camps and; elation over early war victories; end of war; “euthanasia” program; execution policy; foreign opinion on; as Führer and Reich chancellor; General Plan East; Himmler and; human experiments and; hysterical rages of; impending defeat; invasion of Poland; KL system and; Kristallnacht; Mein Kampf; moustache; myth; 1923 putsch; 1934–39 camps and; 1944 failed bomb plot on; Operation Barbarossa; in Paris; rise to power; Röhm purge; SA “plot” against; scorched earth order; self-image of; Speer and; suicide of; terror of 1933; underground headquarters of; utopianism of; wartime racial policy; worldview of; World War I defeat and aftermath

  Hitler Youth

  Hochlinden

  Hoechst

  Hofbauer, Franz

  Hohmann, Max

  Hohnstein

  holidays; SS

  Holleischen

  Hollerith technology

  Holocaust; Auschwitz and development of “Final Solution”; foreign opinion on; genesis of; German public awareness of; legacy of; literature of; memory; of 1942–43; of 1944; of 1945; survivors; terminology; T-4 program shift to; see also crematoria; “Final Solution”; gas chambers; Jews; specific camps

  Holocaust (miniseries)

  Holzlöhner, Ernst

  homosexuals; Kapos; prisoners; Röhm

  Hoppe, Paul Werner

  Horvath, Hermine

  Höss, Hedwig

  Höss, Rudolf; as Auschwitz commandant; death of; family life in Auschwitz; as head of department D I; rise to power; trial of

  Hössler, Franz

  Hoven, Waldemar

  Hradil, Adam

  Hübner, Gertrud

  Hübsch, Alfred

  human experiments; air pressure; cocaine; Kapos and; malaria; Mengele and; phosgene; Polygal; public awareness of; sexual; sulfonamide drugs; on twins; typhus; victim swaps; water

  humor; about camps; gallows; prisoner; SS

  Hungarian Jews

  Hungary

  hunger; see also food

  Hussarek, Paul

  Hussels, Jupp

  Hüttig, Hans

  IG Farben; forced labor; Monowitz; postwar trial

  Ihr, Jakob

  IKL (Inspectorate of Concentration Camps)

  illness; in Auschwitz; in 1934–39 camps; in 1939–41 camps; in 1942–43 camps; in 1944 camps; in 1945 camps; see also disease; doctors; infirmaries; invalid prisoners

  indifference, German

  industry; aircraft; arms production; chemical; civilian worker encounters with prisoners; forced labor for IG Farben; of 1944; pharmaceutical; postwar; SS and; underground relocation; see also specific industries

  infirmaries; Auschwitz; “euthanasia” program; human experiments; Kapos in; of 1945; p
rison relations; see also disease; doctors; illness; invalid prisoners; specific camps

  Inquisition

  insignia; black triangle; colored triangle system; green triangle; Kapos; prisoners; SS; red triangle, see political prisoners; swastika; yellow star of David

  inspiration, for Nazi camps

  “The International”

  International Committee of the Red Cross

  interwar period; 1933 camps; 1934–39 camps

  invalid prisoners; Auschwitz; Dachau; “euthanasia” program; of 1934–39; of 1939–41; of 1942–43; of 1944; of 1945

  Israel

  Italian Jews

  Italy; Fascism

  Itzkewitsch, Ferdinand

  Iwes, Hendrikus

  Jahn, Rudi

  Jakobovics, Jenö

  Jakubovics, Vilmos

  Jankowski, Stanisław

  Jehovah’s Witnesses

  Jesenská, Milena

  Jew Companies

  Jews; Action “Harvest Festival”; arrival in Auschwitz; “asocial”; in Auschwitz-Birkenau; in Bergen-Belsen; blackmail of; in Buchenwald; children; circumcision; comradeship; “criminal”; in Dachau; in early camps; emigration; in Emsland; “exchange”; forced labor; holidays; as “hostages”; human experiments; intelligentsia; invalid prisoners; Kapos; Kristallnacht; latrine squads; looted possessions of; in Majdanek; memorials and; in 1934–39 camps; 1938 mass arrests; in 1939–41 camps; in 1942–43 camps; in 1944 camps; 1945 evacuations of; “November”; Operation Reinhard; orthodox; passive victim myth; pogrom of 1938; postwar; prisoner newspaper; prisoner relations; “race defilers”; release of; in Sachsenhausen; in satellite camps; seclusion of; selections; Special Squad; suicides; survivors; T-4 selections; torture of; transports; women; yellow star of David; see also specific nationalities

  “Jew Song”

  Jochheim-Armin, Karl

  Johst, Hanns

  K., Wilhelm

  Kahn, Arthur

  Kahn, Erwin

  Kaindl, Anton

  Kaiserwald

  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin

  Kajzer, Avram

  Kaldore, George

  Kalk

  Kallweit, Albert

  Kaltenbrunner, Ernst

  Kalvo, Haim

  Kalvo, Juda

  Kammler, Hans; underground camps and

  Kapacki, Franc

  Kapos; Auschwitz; block elders; brothels and; Buchenwald; camp elders; clothing; Communist; corruption; criminals as; Dachau; development of system; doctors; functional groups of; German; “green”; hierarchies; insignia; Jewish; last death transports; medical; morality of; political prisoners as; postwar justice and; power and privilege; prisoner relations; “red”; satellite camps; selections by; as “self-administration”; sex; terminology; as torturers and murderers; women; work supervisors

  Kapp, Karl

  Karaganda

  Karołewska, Władislawa

  Kašák, Karel

  Kasaniczky, Johann

  Kassebaum, Magdalene

  Kassel

  Katz, Delvin

  Kaufering

  Kaufmann, Karl

  Kautsky, Benedikt

  Kemna

  Kendall, Kopel

  Kershaw, Ian

  Kersten, Felix

  Kielar, Wiesław

  Kislau

  Klee, Ernst

  Klein, Fritz

  Klemperer, Victor

  Kłodziński, Stanisław

  Klooga; massacre

  KL, as acronym

  KL system; Allied bombing of; as Allied internment camps; Allies and; anti-Semitic policy; arms production; atrocity rumors; brothels; Camp SS; classification scheme; Commandant Staff; “copied” from British camps; courts and; Death’s Head SS; “decent” punishment; denials of personal responsibility; early camps; Eicke as inspector of; Eicke’s organizational restructure of; emerging personnel policy; end of war; escape; “euthanasia” program; evacuations; execution policy; expansion of; final collapse of; forced labor; foreign opinion on; foreign prisoners in; formation of; functional design; funding of; in General Government; genocide and; German public awareness of; Glücks as inspector of; Guard Troops; hierarchies; Himmler model; Holocaust; human experiments; incriminating evidence destroyed; industry and; invention of Auschwitz gas chamber; Kapos; legacy of; looting and corruption; memorials; memory and; mid-1930s official image; military ambitions and; multifaceted nature of; myth of ignorance; new model camps; 1933 camps; 1934–39 camps; 1939–41 camps; 1942–43 camps; 1944 camps; 1945 camps; 1950s–80s public views on; “November Jews” and; Operation Reinhard; overcrowding; pogrom and; Pohl as head of; in Poland; postwar justice for war crimes; precedents; prewar racial policy; prisoner resistance to; reducing death rates; reward system; Röhm purge; roots of; satellite camps; secrecy; of September 1939; slave labor; social outsiders in; Soviet POWs; SS routines; state threat to; of summer 1935; of summer 1944; terminology; underground; uprisings; wartime racial policy; women’s camps; WVHA absorption of; see also barracks; Camp SS; compounds; conditions; deaths; guards; prisoners; satellite camps; specific camps, groups, and organizations; torture

  Knittler, Martin

  Knödler, Magdalena

  Knoll, Christof

  Knöller, Helmut

  Koch, Ilse

  Koch, Karl Otto; corruption case against; death of; execution policy; extravagance of; leadership style of

  Koch, Robert

  Koegel, Max

  Kogon, Eugen

  Kohn, Armand

  Kohn, Georges

  Kohnstein

  Koker, David

  Kolacek, Josef

  Kola-Fu

  Kolbe, Maksymilian

  Kolberg (film)

  Konzentrationslager, see KL system

  Köpenick

  Koretz, Arieh

  Korewina, Helena

  Kovno

  Kozlowieki, Adam

  Kozlowski, Ella

  KPD (Communist Party of Germany)

  Krakow

  Krakow University

  Kramer, Josef

  Krebsbach, Eduard

  Kremer, Johann Paul

  Kreuzberg

  Kristallnacht

  Kristan, Bernhard

  Kruk, Hershl

  Krupp

  KTI (Criminal Technical Institute)

  Kulikow, Anatolij

  Künstler, Karl

  Kupfer, Edgar

  Küsel, Otto

  Kutno

  labor, see economically pointless labor; forced labor; slave labor

  labor action leaders

  Ladik, Grigorij

  Lagedi

  Lammers, Hans Heinrich

  Landsberg

  Langbein, Hermann

  Langefeld, Johanna

  Langer, Lawrence

  Langfus, Lejb

  Langhoff, Wolfgang

  languages, prisoner

  Laqueur, Renata

  Lasker-Allais, Renate

  latrines; cleaning; disease and; suicides; underground

  Latvia

  Lauenberg

  Laurahütte

  Lauwe, Marijo Chombart de

  League of Nations

  Lebedev, Benjamin

  Lechenich, Jonny

  Left; conflicts within; German fear of; 1933 terror against; in 1934–39 camps; in 1939–41 camps; in 1944 camps; of 1945; pamphlets about early camps; see also Communists; political prisoners

  legal system, see courts

  Lehmann, Arthur

  Lehmann, Gertrude

  Lehmann, Günther

  Lehrburger, Karl

  Leibstandarte

  Leipzig-Schönefeld

  Lenard, Dionys

  Lengyel, Olga

  lethal injections

  letters, prisoner; blackmail; censored; mail embargo; secret

  Levi, Primo; If This Is a Man

  Levy, Ludwig

  Lévy-Hass, Hanna

  Lewental, Salmen

  liberatio
n; of Auschwitz; early days of; media coverage; memory and; relief effort; see also specific camps

  libraries, camp

  lice

  Lichtenberg, Bernhard

  Lichtenburg; organizational restructure of; women in

  Liebehenschel, Arthur; as commandant of Auschwitz; death of; demise of; trial of

  Lieberose

  Lingens-Reiner, Ella

  Linz

  Lippert, Michael

  literature, Holocaust

  Lithuania

  Litten, Hans; death of

  Litten, Irmgard

  living space, Nazi concept of

  Lodz

  Lolling, Enno

  London

  London Times

  Loritz, Hans; as commandant of Dachau

  Loslau

  Lower Silesia

  Lübeck

  Lublin

  Lucas, Franz

  Luckau

  Ludolph, Erna

  Ludwigshafen

  Lukawski, Victor

  Lüneburg

  Lütjenburg

  MacDonald, Ramsay

  machine guns

  Machnew, Aleksander

  Magdeburg

  Magnussen, Karin

  Mahl, Emil

  Majdanek; Action “Harvest Festival”; barracks; conditions; corruption; escapes; evacuation of; forced labor; foreign opinion on; gas chambers; Jews in; prisoner relations; trial

  Majewicz, Stanisław

  malaria; experiments

  Malsen-Ponickau, Baron von

  Manchester Guardian

  Marczyński, Józef

  marriages, prisoner

  Marseilles

  Marxism

  mass extermination; Camp SS killers; “euthanasia” program; foreign opinion on; German public awareness of; Holocaust; invention of Auschwitz gas chamber; mass shootings; neck-shooting mechanism; 1941 transition to; of 1942–43; of 1944; of 1945; Operation Reinhard; of Soviet POWs; see also “Final Solution”; Holocaust

  mass graves

  mass shootings; of 1945

  masturbation

  Masur, Norbert

  Matthäus, Jürgen

  Maurer, Gerhard

  Mauriac, François

  Mauthausen; brothel; “Bullet” prisoners; gas chamber; Jews; memorial; prisoner relations; resistance; satellite camps; Soviet POWs executed in; T-4 selections; see also Gusen

  Max Planck Society

  Mazower, Mark

  Medryk, Danuta

  Meier, Gretel

  Melk

  Melmer, Bruno

  memorials; Auschwitz; Buchenwald; Dachau; Mauthausen

  Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Berlin)

 

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