Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann (Birkbeck College, London)
This lecture compares and contrasts the two main sites of confi nement and terror in the Third Reich: the SS concentration camps and the regular prisons controlled by the legal apparatus. Looking at the conditions inside the two institutions, inmate relations, and the behaviour of their respective offi cials, the lecture will highlight differences and similarities between these two parallel institutions of imprisonment.
Nikolaus Wachsmann is a Lecturer in Modern German History at Birkbeck College (University of London). He has written widely on Nazi terror and is the author of Hitler's Prisons. Legal Terror in Nazi Germany (Yale University Press, 2004). In 2001, he was jointly awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for his research on German prisons.
