excursus in English

noun
1
a detailed discussion of a particular point in a book, usually in an appendix.
This reversal is the subject of Herodotus' detailed account in the long excursus he consecrates in Book 3 to the theme of the hostility between Corinth and her colony Corcyra.

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1. Concentration Camp Kaiserwald and the Barrackings Excursus II: SS Second Lieutenant Fritz Scherwitz, The Commander at Lenta: A Biographical Sketch Chapter 19