Childlike action extended beyond obedience to the guards and showed that a basic character transformation had occurred.

Previous social-psychological theory stressed the ways in which an individual's personality was shaped during his earliest childhood years and emphasized the tenacity with which these early traits resisted attempt at alteration.

Personality theory was not adequate to what occurred in the camps.
The concentration camp experience began with what has become labeled as shock procurement.

As terror was one of the many tools of the system, surprise late-night arrests were the favorite technique.

Camp inmates generally agreed that the train ride to the camp was the point at which they experienced the first brutal torture.