HITLER'S PRISONS

An outstanding piece of work - one of the best studies of the Third Reich to appear for a long time. No serious future work on the Nazi state will be able to bypass this book." - Sir Ian Kershaw. Traditionally, there has been little awareness of places of confinement in Hitler's Germany other than the concentration camps. However, state prisons also played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich. In this major study, the previously unexplored world of Nazi penal institutions is illuminated through new findings. Described by Richard Evans as "one of the most important books to be published on Nazi Germany in many years", this account examines the prisons' victims and the judicial and penal officials who built and implemented this brutal system. The author describes the operation and function of Nazi legal terror and brings the prisons to life through the harrowing stories of individual inmates. Drawing on a vast array of archival material, he traces the series of changes in prison policy and practice that led eventually to racial terror, brutal violence, slave labour and mass killings.