Concentration camp practices were the SS’s most closely guarded secret

Evidence

“There was little in the SS that was not secret. The greatest secret was the practices in the concentration camps. Not even members of the Gestapo were admitted …to the camps without a special permit” (Eugen Kogon, Der SS-Staat, Munich, 1946, p. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2808

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the Foucault biopolitics thread—secrecy compartmentalization as a technique of power administration, and to the ‘Two Faces of Totalitarian Rule’ framework.