| List of Tables and Figures | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Pt. I | Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | Entry | 3 |
| 2 | Absolute Power | 16 |
| 3 | On the History of the Concentration Camps | 28 |
| Pt. II | Space and Time | 45 |
| 4 | Zones and Camp Plans | 47 |
| 5 | Boundary and Gate | 55 |
| 6 | The Block | 65 |
| 7 | Camp Time | 73 |
| 8 | Prisoner's Time | 82 |
| Pt. III | Social Structures | 95 |
| 9 | The SS Personnel | 97 |
| 10 | Classes and Classifications | 117 |
| 11 | Self-Management and the Gradation of Power | 130 |
| 12 | The Aristocracy | 145 |
| 13 | Mass, Exchange, Dissociation | 153 |
| Pt. IV | Work | 165 |
| 14 | Work and Slavery | 167 |
| 15 | The Beneficiaries | 173 |
| 16 | Work Situations | 185 |
| Pt. V | Violence and Death | 197 |
| 17 | The Muselmann | 199 |
| 18 | Epidemics | 206 |
| 19 | Terror Punishment | 214 |
| 20 | Violent Excesses | 223 |
| 21 | Selection | 241 |
| 22 | The Death Factory | 259 |
| Epilogue | 276 |
| Selected Glossary and Abbreviations | 283 |
| Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography | 289 |
| Notes | 291 |
| Bibliography | 343 |