KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

“It’s phenomenal. There’s a reason it’s the only book on my list that’s not a memoir. Even people who know the history, or even teach the history, of the concentrations camps probably don’t actually know how the Nazi camp system came about. What Wachsmann has done with this book is taken the millions and millions of detainees, the millions murdered at locations which, as the Germans extended their reach, stretched across Europe, and spanning more than a decade—the most horrific evolution of concentration camps in history—and compressed it all into one volume.” Read more...

The best books on Concentration Camps

Andrea Pitzer, Journalist