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The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps. In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system.

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Nikolaus Wachsmann, geb. 1971 in München, absolvierte seine akademische Ausbildung in England, zunächst an der London School of Economics, dann in Cambridge. Neben anderen Auszeichnungen erhielt er 2001 den Fraenkel-Preis der Wiener Library und 2005 den Gladstone-Preis der Royal Historical Society. Wachsmann lehrt Neuere europäische Geschichte am Birkbeck College der University of London.

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