Dimitri’s Reviews > KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps > Status Update

And they lived hapilly ever after. But life ain't no fairy tale.

Annihiliation through labor, or a productive contribution to the war economy as the fortunes of battle waned ? The dilemma was never resolved, but there was always room for guinea pigs and camp brothels as poorly chosen incentives.

the origins of the Holocaust are too complex to explain even by an expert. You can only work with transition periods, not defining moments. Largely because there WAS no singular masterplan, the SS were half making it up as they went along.

the mass extermination of Sovjet POWs by prussian acid (a familiar delouser) was developped just in time (autumn/winter '41) to coincide with the planning of the Holocaust (early '42)

the very existence of camps was uncertain after the first, consolidating year of Nazi rule. not your popular perception!