Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany

Between 1945 and 1950 approximately 130000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany including in former Nazi concentration camps. One third of detainees died prompting comparisons with Nazi terror. But what about the western zones where the Americans British and French also detained hundreds of thousands of Germans without trial? This first in-depth study compares internment by all four occupying powers asking who was interned how they were treated and when and why they were ...See More