Allied internment camps in occupied Germany : extrajudicial detention in the name of denazification, 1945-1950 /
Beattie, Andrew H. 1976-
Allied internment camps in occupied Germany : extrajudicial detention in the name of denazification, 1945-1950 / Andrew H. Beattie, University of New South Wales - xii, 248 Seiten 24 cm
Zusammenfassung: "Between 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration camps. One third of detainees died, prompting comparisons with Nazi terror. But what about the western zones, where the Americans, British, and French also detained hundreds of thousands of Germans without trial? This first indepth study compares internment by all four occupying powers, asking who was interned, how they were treated, and when and why they were arrested and released. It confirms the incomparably appalling conditions and death rates in the Soviet camps but identifies similarities in other respects. Andrew H. Beattie argues that internment everywhere was an inherently extrajudicial measure with punitive and preventative dimensions that aimed to eradicate Nazism and create a new Germany. By recognising its true nature and extent, he suggests that denazification was more severe and coercive but also more differentiated and complex than previously thought."--(Provided by publisher.)
9781108487634 1108487637 9781108720731 1108720730
2019037645
20,A09 dnb
1202365957 DE-101
Geschichte 1945-1950
Internierungslager
Entnazifizierung
Deutschland
Alliierte ; Besatzungsmächte ; Internment Camp Esterwegen
Allied internment camps in occupied Germany : extrajudicial detention in the name of denazification, 1945-1950 / Andrew H. Beattie, University of New South Wales - xii, 248 Seiten 24 cm
Zusammenfassung: "Between 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration camps. One third of detainees died, prompting comparisons with Nazi terror. But what about the western zones, where the Americans, British, and French also detained hundreds of thousands of Germans without trial? This first indepth study compares internment by all four occupying powers, asking who was interned, how they were treated, and when and why they were arrested and released. It confirms the incomparably appalling conditions and death rates in the Soviet camps but identifies similarities in other respects. Andrew H. Beattie argues that internment everywhere was an inherently extrajudicial measure with punitive and preventative dimensions that aimed to eradicate Nazism and create a new Germany. By recognising its true nature and extent, he suggests that denazification was more severe and coercive but also more differentiated and complex than previously thought."--(Provided by publisher.)
9781108487634 1108487637 9781108720731 1108720730
2019037645
20,A09 dnb
1202365957 DE-101
Geschichte 1945-1950
Internierungslager
Entnazifizierung
Deutschland
Alliierte ; Besatzungsmächte ; Internment Camp Esterwegen