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A Nazi Camp Near Danzig - Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof (Paperback)
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A Nazi Camp Near Danzig - Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof (Paperback)
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Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least
known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication
in English to break the silence of Stutthof, where 120,000 people
were interned and at least 65,000 perished. A Nazi Camp Near Danzig
offers an overview of Stutthof’s history. It also explores
Danzig’s significance in promoting the cult of German nationalism
which led to Stutthof’s establishment and which shaped its
subsequent development in 1942 into a Concentration Camp, with the
full resources of the Nazi Reich. The book shows how Danzig/Gdansk,
generally identified as the city where the Second World War
started, became under Albert Forster, Hitler’s hand-picked
Gauleiter, ‘the vanguard of Germandom in the east’ and with its
disputed history, the poster city for the Third Reich. It reflects
on the fact that Danzig was close enough to supply Stutthof with
both prisoners – initially local Poles and Jews – as well as
local men for its SS workforce. Throughout the study, Ruth
Schwertfeger draws on the stories of Danziger and Nobel Prize
winner, Günter Grass to consider the darker realities of German
nationalism that even Grass’s vibrant depictions and wit cannot
mask. Schwertfeger demonstrates how German nationalism became more
lethal for all prisoners, especially after the summer of 1944 when
thousands of Jewish woman died in the Stutthof camp system or
perished in the ‘death marches’ after January 1945.
Schwertfeger uses archival and literary sources, as well as
memoirs, to allow the voices of the victims to speak. Their
testimonies are juxtaposed with the justifications of perpetrators.
The book successfully argues that, in the end, Stutthof was no less
lethal than other camps of the Third Reich, even if it was, and
remains, less well-known.
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