Books by Paul Cohen-Portheim
“Cohen-Portheim is a beautiful writer. It’s an important book not just in concentration camp history, but in world history, because before this moment, there were almost no concentration camps. “ Read more...
The best books on Concentration Camps
Andrea Pitzer, Journalist
Interviews where books by Paul Cohen-Portheim 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.
