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Cover -- Nazi Camps And Their Neighbouring: History, Memory, And Memorialization -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Abbreviations And Their Translations -- Foreign Terms -- Introduction -- 1: 'you Always Had One Foot In The Camp: 'wartime Interactions Between Camps And Communities -- Accommodating Camps In Host Localities -- Kz Neuengamme: An Industrial Camp At The Rural Extremes Of Hamburg City -- Kz Natzweiler: Exploiting Alsatian Pink Granite At The 'camp D'en Haut' -- Kamp Vught: The 'model' Camp Interactions, Encounters, And The Social Aspect -- Mutual Beneficiaries -- Organized Assistance -- 2: Camps After Camps: Internment And Memorialization In The Early Post-war Period -- From Kz To Internment Camp -- Vught And Natzweiler -- Neuengamme -- Municipal Relations With The Internment Camps -- Early Memorialization Of The Camps -- Provisional Monuments, Memorial Ceremonies, And Exhibitions -- The First Official Kz Monuments -- Acknowledging Fraternity -- Kzs Amidst Local War Memory -- Kzs As Sites Of Memory 3: Pragmatism And Memorialization: The Afterlives Of Former Kzs In The 1950s And Early 1960s -- Pragmatism And The Displacement Of Kz Memory -- Vught: Multipurpose Refunctionalization -- Neuengamme: A Modern Penal Facility -- Natzweiler-struthof: Generating Revenue From Relics -- Embracing Kz Memory, With Or Without An Official Monument -- Kz Rites And Rituals -- Mobilizing Kz Memory For Political Protest -- Memorial Responsibilities -- Camp Memory In Other Contexts -- 4: Narratives, Agents, And Issues: Memorial Politics In The 1950s And Early 1960s Entrenched Disputes: The Importance Of Locality At The National Memorial To The Deportation, Natzweiler-struthof -- The Contentious Matter Of Heritage Protection -- Land Ownership, Acquisition, And Indemnification -- Building And Funding The Monumen -- An Absence Of Locality At Neuengamme? -- The First Neuengamme Monument: An Understatement Of Commemoration -- The Int