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Fascinating glimpse into history of Nazi authoritarianism. The concentration camps started out mainly for political prisoners: socialists, communists, intellectuals, and other opponents of Nazi fascism. Neurath was arrested and sent to Dachau within days of the Nazi annexation of Austria, even though he was not a prominent leader of the Nazi opposition. He was a law student, a member of the socialist party, and the son of a well-known intellectual. No reason was ever given for his arrest and imprisonment. The camps were brutal and many died from forced labor, miserable conditions, or being shot for "trying to escape". But they were not yet extermination camps. Their purpose was to neutralize the political opposition and to instill fear in the general population to keep them submissive to the Nazi regime.
Neurath eventually gained release on condition he leave Germany immediately. Most were not so lucky. He wrote this sociological account of his imprisonment for his PhD dissertation in 1942 but it was never published until after his death in 2001. He wanted to publish it soon after he got his degree, but events in the Nazi concentration camps had already "progressed" so far that he suspected publishers wouldn't be interested in his account of the camps from a time before gas chambers.
Neurath's keen observations give insight into how repressive political institutions operate, how victims react, and how social structures develop in response to extreme conditions.
This book lends new meaning to the saying: "First they took the communists, but I wasn't a communist so I didn't do anything; then they took the socialists, but I wasn't a socialist so I didn't do anything; then they took the jews, but I wasn't a jew so I didn't do anything; then they took the gypsies ... the gays ... the elderly .... Then they came for me, and there was no one left to protest."
This is how fascism gains ground, through fear, force, and ultimately state terrorism.
The call "Never Again!" needs to start at the early stages. "First they took the arabs ... then the muslims ... then foreigners ... then people with brown skin ... then .... "
