Wünschmann Kim
University of London.
J Contemp Hist. 2010;45(3):576-600. doi: 10.1177/0022009410366556.
Understandably, research has focused overwhelmingly on Jews in the camps of the Holocaust. But the nazis had been detaining Jews in concentration camps ever since 1933, at times in large numbers. Who were these prisoners? This article analyzes nazi policies that brought Jews into the concentration camps. It ventures into the inner structure and dynamics of one of the most heterogeneous groups of concentration camp inmates. By contrasting the perpetrators' objectives with the victims' experiences, this article will illuminate the role of the concentration camp as the ultimate means of pressure in the fatal process of turning a minority group into an outsider group: that is, the act of defining and marking the enemy which was the critical stage before the destruction of European Jewry. Furthermore, it will examine Jewish reactions to SS terror inside the camps.
可以理解的是，研究绝大多数都集中在大屠杀集中营里的犹太人身上。但纳粹自1933年起就一直在集中营里关押犹太人，有时数量还很多。这些囚犯都是谁？本文分析了将犹太人带入集中营的纳粹政策。它深入探讨了集中营囚犯中最具多样性的群体之一的内部结构和动态。通过对比作恶者的目标和受害者的经历，本文将阐明集中营在把一个少数群体变成局外人的致命过程中作为终极施压手段所起的作用：也就是说，界定和标记敌人的行为是欧洲犹太人被毁灭之前的关键阶段。此外，它还将研究犹太人对集中营内党卫军恐怖统治的反应。
