''Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager'' ("The Place of Terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps") is a nine-volume

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series of

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's camp system, published between 2005 and 2009 by

Wolfgang Benz Wolfgang Benz (born 9 June 1941) is a German historian and Antisemitism, anti-semitism researcher from Ellwangen (Jagst), Ellwangen. He was the director of the Berlin Research Centre on Anti-Semitism, Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Te ...

and Barbara Distel for C. H. Beck. It was edited by Angelika Königseder of the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung. The first volume deals with central issues concerning the Nazi camp system, volumes 2 to 7 contain articles on the main

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and their subcamps in chronological order. Volume 8 deals with concentration and

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s in German-occupied Eastern Europe. Volume 9 also lists other types of camps in the Nazi forced labor camp system.

Volumes

# ''Die Organisation des Terrors''. 2005. . # ''Frühe Lager, Dachau, Emslandlager''. 2005. . # ''Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald''. 2006. . # ''Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück''. 2006. . # ''Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme''. 2007. . # ''Natzweiler, Groß-Rosen, Stutthof''. 2007. . # ''Niederhagen/Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora''. 2008. . # ''Riga, Warschau, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof/Chełmno, Bełzec, Sobibór, Treblinka''. 2008. . # ''Arbeitserziehungslager, Ghettos, Jugendschutzlager, Polizeihaftlager, Sonderlager, Zigeunerlager, Zwangsarbeiterlager''. 2009. .

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