Book review: If This Is a Woman - Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women

OPENING its gates in May, 1939, four months before the outbreak of the Second World War — to be liberated by the Russians six years later — Ravensbrück, 50 miles north of Berlin, in Germany, was the only concentration camp the Nazis built to house only female political prisoners.

Sarah helm

Little Brown, €13.99