SUPERVISORS OF THE SS-CONCENTRATION CAMPS. TO THE QUESTION OF THE STATE OF THE RESEARCH SOURCES BASE

Abstract

Basing on a wide range of published and unpublished sources the paper presents the current state of the source base and typology of the documents related to the process of recruiting, training, further professional activities, as well as the post-war prosecution of the SS overseers (SS-Aufseherin), female guards in the Nazi concentration camps (1938 – 1945). This paper is the result of the author‘s work in a number of foreign and national archives. In total, in elaborating the theme archival materials of the Russian Federation, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Austria were used. The author also had remote access to a number of documents stored in the National Archives of Great Britain and the United States, as well as the vast digitized collection of the University of Lund (Sweden)

Keywords

• concentration camp, female overseer, ss