Before Auschwitz : : Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps / / Kim Wünschmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wünschmann, Kim,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 19 halftones, 1 map, 5 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. In the Beginning There Was Violence: “Protective Custody” and Arrests of Jews, 1933–1934 --; 2. Inside the Early Concentration Camps: Abuse, Isolation, and Murder of Jews, 1933–1934 --; 3. Her Transport to the Concentration Camp Has Been Ordered: Arrests and Imprisonment of Jewish Women, 1933–1939 --; 4. Cementing the Enemy Category: Jews in the Evolving SS Concentration Camp System, 1935–1938 --; 5. Instruments of Mass Persecution: The Concentration Camps and Anti-Jewish Policy in 1938 --; 6. The Calm after the Storm? Jews in the Concentration Camps in 1939 --; Conclusion --; Appendix: SS Ranks and U.S. Army Equivalents --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674425569; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674425569
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kim Wünschmann.

Nazis began detaining Jews in camps as soon as they came to power in 1933. Kim Wünschmann reveals the origin of these extralegal detention sites, the harsh treatment Jews received there, and the message the camps sent to Germans: that Jews were enemies of the state, dangerous to associate with and fair game for acts of intimidation and violence.