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008 090122t20152015enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014495860
020 $a9781408705384 (paperback)
020 $a1408705389 (paperback)
020 $a9781408701072 (hardback)
020 $a1408701073 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aD805.5.R38$bH45 2015
100 1 $aHelm, Sarah,$eauthor.
240 10 $aRavensbrück
245 10 $aIf this is a woman :$binside Ravensbrück : Hitler's concentration camp for women /$cSarah Helm.
264 1 $aLondon :$bLittle, Brown,$c[2015]
300 $axviii, 748 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published under title: Ravensbrück. London : Little, Brown, 2009.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 703-715) and index.
520 $aOn 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 Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbrück 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.
610 20 $aRavensbrück (Concentration camp)
650 0 $aWomen concentration camp inmates$zGermany$zRavensbrück.
650 0 $aWomen prisoners$zGermany$zRavensbrück.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German.