Books by Margarete Buber-Neumann
“We see these two systems in sharp relief from each other. Both are incredibly cruel, both are warping society as a whole, both are killing more than a million people and locking up millions and millions more, but they’re actually quite different. Both are very destructive and yet the way they function is quite different. People are monsters inside both, but they have different outlets because of the ways the camps are culturally. And of course, Ravensbrück descends into squalor and the horrors become more like the gulag system as the war continues. The Nazis lose the daily order and control that they had so prided themselves on.” Read more...
The best books on Concentration Camps
Andrea Pitzer, Journalist
Interviews where books by Margarete Buber-Neumann were recommended
The best books on Concentration Camps, recommended by Andrea Pitzer
Most of us associate concentration camps with Nazi Germany, but they are not, in fact, relics of the past or confined to one particular episode of history. Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, talks us through memoirs and books that illuminate a tool that has been widely used, since the late 19th century, for the mass detention of civilians without trial.
