This new book follows the well-established and popular format of the ‘Image of War’ series. All books in this series stand on the quality of their images, but they also pack a surprising amount of information into the text. This is a worthy addition to a successful series and it provides a chilling review of one of the major genocides of history through the nature of the images. This is an important book that deserves to be widely read...This new book traces the complete history and evolution of the concentration camps through the camp commandants. The images are chilling not only because they show the machinery of mass killing, but because they also show individuals and groups of people, who managed the terrible process, as normal uniformed officers, comfortable in their surroundings.

FIRE Project

The pictures of the guards and their ordinary lives set in juxtaposition of the inmates is what makes the book so haunting. While the book is haunting it is also an excellent addition to the Holocaust canon.

Paul Diggett

This book accurately reflects it’s title. Short on words and filled with pictures it shows the SS Commandants and, sometimes, men who manned the concentration camps from 1933-­1945. It gives a brief overview of the development of the GERMAN concentration camp system and how it evolved from a single prison for dissidents and political enemies of the Third Reich to a wide spread system of death and labour camps throughout Nazi occupied Europe.

Argunners.com

The pictures of the guards and their ordinary lives set in juxtaposition to that of the inmates is what makes the book so haunting. ... An excellent addition to the Holocaust canon.

Pegasus Archive