Lotfi, Gestapo Camps, Mass Arrests, and Mass Releases

Did you know the Nazis had more than one type of concentration camp? What role did camps play during the final months of the Third Reich? In this episode, Chris and Ryan discuss Gabriele Lotfi's Concentration Camps of the Gestapo: Work Education Camps in the Third Reich. Ryan starts the episode off with a short overview of the development of the concentration camp system. The discussion then focuses on chapters about the final months of the war and Chris shares findings from his own research about the treatment of foreign workers. As usual, we get stuck into a meaty discussion about who faced the firing squads and who was spared in spring 1945 and toss around some ideas for consideration.