Women's Camp in Moringen
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- ISBN 9781845450779
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Nazi regime opened its first concentration camps within weeks of coming to power, but with the exception of Dachau the history of these early, improvised camps and their inmates is not yet widely known. Gabriele Herz's memoir, published for the first time, is a unique record of a Jewish woman's detention in the first women's concentration camp in Moringen (housed in part of an old-established workhouse), at a time when most other inmates were communists or Jehovah's Witnesses. This original translation of her wry and perceptive memoir is accompanied by an extensive introduction that sets Herz's experience in the history both of political detention under the Nazi regime and of the German workhouse system.
Jane Caplan is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Modern History.
