The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945volume editor, Geoffrey P. Megargee.
Encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945 Early camps, youth camps, and concentration camps and subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; (c)2009. [Washington, D.C. : in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxix, 1659 pages)) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Pt. A, section 1. The early national socialist concentration camps ; section 2. Camps and subcamps under the SS-inspectorate of concentration camps/business administration main office -- part B, section 2. Camps and subcamps under the SS-inspectorate of concentration camps/business administration main office ; section 3. Youth camps.
Describes the universe of camps and ghettos, some 20,000 in all, that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. This volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps that the Nazis established in the first year of Hitler's rule, the major SS concentration camps with their constellations of subcamps, and the special camps for Polish and German children and adolescents.
Association of Jewish Libraries Reference Award, 2010.
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Nazi concentration camps--Europe--Encyclopedias. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe--Encyclopedias.