A Nazi Camp Near Danzig - Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof

List of contents

Introduction
1. Promoting German-Consciousness in a Revamped Gau, 1930-1939
2. Danzig-West Prussia and Stutthof: Implementing Germandom, September 1939 – January 1942
3. Gaining the Next Tier of Germandom as a Nazi Konzentrationslager
4. Entering the Zone of the Final Solution, Summer of 1944
5. The Collapse of Germandom, Winter of 1945
Epilogue
Sources
Abbreviations and Key Terms
Bibliography
Appendices
Index

About the author

Ruth Schwertfeger is Professor Emerita of German at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She is the author of In Transit: Narratives of German Jews in Exile, Flight, and Internment during 'The Dark Years' of France (2012).

Summary

The first book to comprehensively examine the history of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp near Danzig which incorporates the varied perspectives of victims, perpetrators and bystanders/onlookers.

Foreword

The first book to comprehensively examine the history of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp near Danzig which incorporates the varied perspectives of victims, perpetrators and bystanders/onlookers.

Additional text

Outstanding study on the Danzing/Gdansk as city and Stutthof/Sztutowo as a concentration camp near by it. The book of Professor Ruth Schwertfeger put in the light of day names, experiences and feelings of inhabitants of the concentration camp’s micro-socium. This much needed and thought-provoking book discusses values of a human being in the circumstances of dehumanization and connect History, Literature and contemporary specific understanding of such places as Stutthof.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Emerita Ruth (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Schwertfeger, Ruth Schwertfeger, SCHWERTFEGER RUTH
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781350274037
• ISBN: 978-1-350-27403-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Poland, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Far-right political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust