In 1942, the Nazis sent about 4.5 thousand Yugoslav prisoners to concentration camps in Northern Norway. When the war ended, only one third remained alive. Some of the horrors of the concentration camps became common knowledge. Incomprehensible things were discovered. Genocide. Mass destruction of people. Nazi monsters. And not only Nazi ones. Norwegians also served as guards in these camps. Many of them were convicted after the war of cruel treatment and murder of prisoners. How was this possible? Maybe these people were mentally insane, monsters? Or is it the result of abnormal social systems and relationships? Nils Christie examines this in detail in his master's thesis, published in book form in 1952. Today, more than half a century later, the answer to these questions appears in even darker tones. Phenomena in the spirit of the Holocaust are considered by many to be natural results of the development of our civilization.