Penal Colonies and Camp Cultures

This is a study of camps and camp culture in the era of triumphant technology. It is based on two case studies: of the Theresienstadt “ghetto” in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1941-1945) and of Boven Digoel, a colonial “isolation camp” in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies (1927-1943).