Reddit reviews The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
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this is a very comprehensive look inside the internal structure and day-to-day life within Buchenwald, written by a guy who was there for six years as a prisoner. He gives some fascinating accounts of the ways in which the prisoners were able, despite all odds, to subvert the prison camp regime and assert a degree of autonomy - it had to do with the size of the camp, the sheer volume of prisoners and the kapo system. it's a very fascinating book.
I photographed Dachau in the early 1990s. I made the contact sheets as soon as the film was processed, but it took me years to print anything from this set. The place is chilling precisely because it is so very ordinary. It seems to me that morally outrageous acts are possible exactly because they are made to be unremakable, even everyday, things. It is how governments get away with doing things that individual people would usually never do.
Go there if you ever get a chance. When you see "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Works Makes [Us] Free") on the gate, see if you don't get a chill down your spine...
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My friend, I feel for you. Spend some time reading up on the Nuremberg trials or read The Theory and Practice of Hell to get an idea of what really happened during the Holocaust before you make comparisons. This is not a topic that should be discussed so lightly...