| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4 | The History Cooperative

Gabriele Lofti. KZ der Gestapo: Arbeitserziehungs-lager im Dritten Reich. Foreword by Hans Mommsen. (Die Zeit ders Nationalsozialismus.) Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Taschenbuch. 2003. Pp. 451. €15.90.
The establishment of Labor Education Camps (Arbeitserziehungslager or AEL) reveals that the oppression of the German population and persecution of the foreign forced laborers in wartime Nazi Germany was given into the hands of lower-level local and regional civil and police authorities. Gabriele Lofti deconstructs the myths that the approximately 200 AEL that existed during World War II were centrally inspired, organized, and guided. Far from that, the author clearly shows how initiatives from below shaped this ever-expanding terror instrument of the Gestapo.	1
Lofti's book is based on her dissertation and was first published in hardcover in 2000. The slightly revised paperback edition analyzes the complex history of the AEL before the background of the social and labor policy of the Third Reich as well as its forced labor program. The author describes the power struggles over the competences and the goals of the AEL not only between different power holders and organizations in Nazi Germany but also between different levels of the SS and police structure. Lofti's study is not matched by any other contribution on the history of the AEL and gives a vivid account of the policy-making process within the Gestapo and Security Police as a whole.	. . .

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