Hitler's Prisons

{{Short description|2004 book by Nikolaus Wachsmann}}

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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.{{cite journal|last1=McKale|first1=Donald M.|title=Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=110|issue=3|year=2005|pages=888–889|issn=0002-8762|doi=10.1086/ahr.110.3.888}}{{cite journal|last1=Hett|first1=Benjamin Carter|title=Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany. By Nikolaus Wachsmann|journal=Central European History|volume=38|issue=4|year=2008|pages=690|issn=0008-9389|doi=10.1017/S0008938900005926|s2cid=143935657}}{{cite journal|last1=Steinbacher|first1=S.|title=Book Review: Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany|journal=European History Quarterly|volume=37|issue=2|year=2007|pages=357–358|issn=0265-6914|doi=10.1177/026569140703700233|s2cid=144332264}}{{cite journal|last1=Nathans|first1=E.|title=Book Review: Hitler's prisons: Legal terror in Nazi Germany|journal=Punishment & Society|volume=8|issue=4|year=2006|pages=487–490|issn=1462-4745|doi=10.1177/146247450600800404|s2cid=144950523}}