Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps

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Praise for the German edition The book is an object-lesson in the historical gold standard of deep and meticulous empirical research and openness to multifactorial analysis. No other such system of concentration camps has been subjected to anything like this degree of intensive comparative study, and this is the great originality of this work. * Jane Caplan, University of Oxford * This is a hugely stimulating and rich study, full of new insights and arguments. It is a must for everyone interested in Nazi terror. * Nikolaus Wachsmann, University of London * Buggeln's work convinces through multi-perspectivity. * Thomas Kuehne, Strassler Family Professor in the Study of Holocaust History at Clark University * This study is not only at the height of current research, but it will shape future research strongly. * Michael Wildt, Humboldt University Berlin * A ground-breaking study on one of the key components in the Nazi terror system. * Juergen Matthaeus, co-author of Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1938 * Buggeln comes to his topic steadily from different perspectives. He develops out of many single pieces a mosaic, which develops a picture of the whole subcamp system. Methodically and textually this approach is successful and for the further research of the Nazi Concentration Camps, ground-breaking. * Jan Erik Schulte, Hannah Arendt Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Dresden * Buggeln delievers a multi-perspective study with many important impulses for the research on the concentration camps: especially convincing is his praxeological approach. * Elissa Mailaender, University of Paris * This work, with its sophisticated and profound theoretical procedures, sets standards. * Karin Orth, University of Freiburg * Buggeln's work is an extraordinary and important study which describes the development of the living conditions in the subcamps of the concentration camps in a competent and profound way. * Hermann Kaienburg, KZ-Gedenkstaette Sachsenhausen * [a] meticulous study ... [Buggeln] has cogently extracted revealing patterns about the relationship of violence, gender, race, and ideology to survival and conditions within the camps, findings that are applicable to other camps and their satellites. * Dr Christine Schmidt van der Zanden, Holocaust Studies * Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps is an important, encyclopedically informed study about the Third Reich's camps, slave labour in twentieth-century Europe, racism, modernity, efficiency and profit. In this sense, the book offers a timely read in the age of austerity and globalization. * Anna Hajkova, History * [The book is] highly welcome and promises to make important scholarship available to a wider audience ... Buggeln's analysis yields important correctives to received wisdom on mortality patterns in the camps. * Christopher Dillon, Sehepunkte * The author gives many new insights and figures about the functioning of the Nazi concentration camps and especially the subcamps in the German war economy ... essential reading ... a fine study. * Martijn Lak, European History Quarterly * The fact that the reader is left craving more detail is a sign of the excellence of the research and analysis behind this book ... In Buggeln's first-rate study -- not of a single camp but of a system -- scholars of the Holocaust will find a useful methodological guide to similar works on systems elsewhere * Waitman Wade Beorn, Holocaust and Genocide Studies * Buggeln's prizewinning book is an extensively researched, well-argued, and original monograph that will influence future research ... The book offers a comparative framework that will be useful for further studies of National Socialist concentration camps and for other camp systems such as the Gulag ... The high quality of the translation by Paul Cohen should be noted: it is fluent, reliable, and readable * Alan Kramer, Journal of Modern History *