Author: COHEN, E.A.,
Title: Het Duitse Concentratiekamp. Een medische en psychologische studie. 2e druk. (2nd. edn. after the orig. thesis).
Description: Amsterdam, H.J. Paris, 1952. orig. wraps. Hftitle (verso blank). (viii), 258pp. Some tables and a diagramme showing the structure of the SS (Schutz Staffel), extensive footnotes, summaries in french, english and german, bibliogr. A very important and still valuable study, orig. publ. as a thesis, on the medico-psychological aspects of the german Concentration-camp[s], after earlier published sources and author's own experiences in various camps. As an introduction the term Concentration-camp is thouroughly explained and researched after: organization, inmates, mass-killings, gas-chambers and death-marches. Further the medical and psychological aspects of the camps are analyzed and discussed and finally the S.S. psychology is analyzed and explained. Good uncut copy. Rare. (somewh. dog-eared, front wrap. lightly soiled in places, modest signature in corner of hftitle).

Keywords: science medicine psychology concentration camps german second world war mass destruction