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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
Little Brown, 865 pp., £25, April 2015,978 0 316 72967 3 Show More
by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
Little Brown, 865 pp., £25, April 2015,
“... near the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau after its liberation. His words supply the epigram for Nikolaus Wachsmann’s history of the concentration camps, KL – the Nazi abbreviation of Konzentrationslager. Wachsmann’s book is a world-making history: from the close observations of individual lives and moments, and ... ”