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Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Map; Introduction; Part I Setting the Scene; 1 The Weimar Prison, 1918-33; Crime and Correction; The Prison and the Public; Fighting the 'Incorrigible'; The Prison in Crisis; Part II Enforcing Legal Terror, 1933-39; 2 Inside the Nazi Prison; Terror, Crime and Punishment; Hitler's Jurists and the Prison; Everyday Life Behind Bars; Prison Camps; 3 The Campaign against 'Community Aliens'; Political Resistance and Repression; 'Dangerous Habitual Criminals' and Security Confinement.

Back to Work: Prison Officials in West GermanyEast Germany and the Perversion of the Law; Special Path? A Comparative View; Conclusion; Figures; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'National Comrades' behind BarsSoldiers as Prisoners

Prisoners as Soldiers; Foreign Political Prisoners; Enforcing Racial Policy: Polish Prisoners; 8 Killing Prisoners; 'Annihilation through Labour': the View from Above; 'Annihilation through Labour': the View from Below; Extending the Killings: 'Asocials' and the Disabled; Capital Punishment; 9 Final Defeat; The Last Stand of Nazi Terror; Prison Evacuations; Chaos, Murder, Liberation; Part IV Aftermath; 10 The Nazi Prison in Perspective; Bloody Hands, Clean Conscience: Nazi Jurists and Postwar Justice.

Sex Crimes, Castration and HomosexualityThe Sterilisation of Prisoners; German Jews and Legal Terror; 4 The Nazi Web of Terror; The Rise of the Police and the SS; Conflict and Compromise: the Law and the Police; Denouncing Prisoners to the Police; Prisons and Concentration Camps; Part III Escalating Legal Terror, 1939-45; 5 Law in Wartime; Terror on the Home Front, 1939-41; The Legal System under Attack, 1942; Total War and Extermination, 1942-44; 6 Prison Conditions: from Bad to Worse; Prisons as Penal Factories; Life and Death in Prisons; Torment in Prison Camps; 7 Privilege and Punishment.

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