Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany is a 2004 book by Nikolaus Wachsmann, a modern European history professor. Wachsmann argues that the Nazi judiciary played a key role in Nazi terror. The prison systems inflicted harsh punishments against Jews, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses while enforcing Nazi racial policies.McKale, D. (2005). Reviewed work: hitler’s prisons: legal terror in nazi germany by nikolaus wachsmann. JSTOR. Vol. 110. No. 3 Wachsmann describes how law enforcement promoted the Nazi and terror acts in Germany before and during World War IITurner, H. (June 2006). Nikolaus wachsmann, hitler's prisons: legal terror in nazi germany. The Journal of Modern History 78, No. 2. and each chapter describes a specific topic relating to political prisoner terror. The book illuminates the bureaucratic and institutional history of prisons and the history of inmates themselves.Edelheit, A. (2004). Hitler’s prisons: legal terror in nazi germany. Jewish Book Council.
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