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Call for Papers: Europe in the Concentration Camps. The Expanded Camp System 1944

28. October 2024

Call for Papers: „Europe in the Concentration Camps. The Expanded Camp System 1944”

The Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, the University of Klagenfurt, theTopography of Terror Documentation Centre, and the Federal Agency for Civic Education invite submissions for the conference "Europe in the Concentration Camps. The Expanded Camp System 1944," which will take place from February 2 to 5, 2025, at the Topography of Terror Documentation Centre in Berlin.

The Nazi concentration camp system reached its greatest expansion and highest number of prisoners relatively late, around the turn of 1944/45. Although the history of individual camps and subcamps is well-researched, there is no comprehensive overview of the origins, structure, and living conditions of the prisoner society during its maximum expansion. Who were the prisoners, why and how did they come to the camps, and where did they come from? In particular, the connections between the German occupation throughout Europe and the late phase of the Holocaust have, thus far, been researched to a limited extent. The conference addresses these gaps by bringing together expertise on various topics and regions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Contexts of the concentration camp system in 1944: the development of the “Inspection of Concentration Camps,” the European-wide radicalization of repression policies, the arms industry and exploitation of prisoners, air warfare and the frontline, the recruitment of civilian labor, other types of camps
  • The registration and deportation of prisoner groups in the occupied territories, especially in Poland, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia, but also in Western Europe
  • The transnational prisoner society in 1944: a comparison of camp networks, hierarchies, specific topics, and murder campaigns (Aktion 14f13 etc.)
  • The transports of Jewish prisoners to the camps in the Reich and Austria in 1944: from Greater Hungary, following the dissolution of the last ghettos in Poland, through the evacuation of camps in the Baltic States via Stutthof
  • The society in the Reich and its confrontation with the expanded camp system in 1944: in everyday life, at work, during escapes, criminalization of contacts

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit your abstract (approx. 1000 characters) and a short CV (in German or English) via email to buchmeier(at)stiftung-bg.de by November 22, 2024.

For further details and the complete Call for Papers, please refer to:

 

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