" The book] makes several important contributions to scholarship in the field of Holocaust studies... Readers] will find a wealth of valuable information made accessible to the English reader for the first time." - American Historical Review

By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and the Allied forces were continuing to move in from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia, Germany more than sixty new forced labor camps were established, adding to the approximately forty camps that already existed. The inmates were Jews from...