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If this is a woman : inside Ravensbrèuck - Hitler's concentration camp for women

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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates.

Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbruck, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbruck was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known.

Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved.

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Abacus
034912003X / 9780349120034
Paperback / softback
07/01/2016
United Kingdom
English
xix, 823 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and wh
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2015.