KL: a history of the Nazi concentration camps

Early camps

The SS camp system

Expansion

War

Mass extermination

Holocaust

Anus Mundi

Economics and extermination

Camps unbound

Impossible choices

Death or freedom.

1: Early camps. A bloody spring and summer ; Coordination ; Open terror

2: The SS camp system. A permanent exception ; The Camp SS ; Prisoner worlds

3 : Expansion. Social outsiders ; Forced labor ; Jews

4: War. The Camp SS at war ; Road to perdition ; Scales of suffering

5: Mass extermination. Killing the weak ; Executing Soviet POWs ; Murderous utopias

6: Holocaust. Auschwitz and the Nazi final solution ; Factories of death ; Genocide and the KL system

7: Anus mundi. Jewish prisoners in the East ; SS routines ; Plunder and corruption

8: Economics and extermination. Oswald Pohl and the WVHA ; Slave labor ; "Guinea pigs"

9: Camps unbound. In extremis ; Satellite camps ; The outside world

10: Impossible choices. Coerced communities ; Kapos ; Defiance

11: Death or freedom. The beginning of the end ; Apocalypse ; The final weeks.