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Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution': The Nazis and the Final Solution

Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution': The Nazis and the Final Solution

by Laurence Rees (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $13.97
Synopsis

In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed. Auschwitz examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers, and perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions. Fascinating and disturbing facts have been uncovered - from the operation of a brothel to the corruption that was rife throughout the camp. The book draws on intriguing new documentary material from recently opened Russian archives, which will challenge many previously accepted arguments. This is the story of murder, brutality, courage, escape and survival, and a powerful account of how human tragedy of such immense scale could have happened.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 01 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0563522968
ISBN 13: 9780563522966
Book Overview: The definitive history of Auschwitz
 Prizes: Winner of British Book Awards: History Book of the Year 2006.

Media Reviews
Thank God that occasionally books of the stature of Laurence Rees's superb Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution are published... Fascinating. -- Andrew Roberts * Evening Standard *
Excellent -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *
A key to understanding man's inhumanity to man -- Ian Thomson * The Guardian *
Well-written with striking testimonies from bystanders, perpetrators and victims. The interviews with SS men, and sundry European Fascists, are genuinely revealing, and must have been exceptionally difficult to negotiate -- Michael Burleigh * Daily Telegraph *
Devastating. Rees's research is impeccable and intrepid. Ultimately he does at the gut level what Hannah Arendt achieved some 40 years ago at the level of philosophy: he forces the reader to shift the Holocaust out of the realm of nightmare or Gothic horror and acknowledge it as something all too human. Scrupulous and honest, this book is utterly without illusions -- David Von Drehle * Washington Post, USA *
Author Bio
Laurence Rees is the writer and producer of the major BBC television documentary series World War II: Behind Closed Doors, War of the Century, Horror in the East and Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. He won the British Book Award for History Book of the Year in 2006 for his international bestseller Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. Rees' career as a writer and filmmaker, focusing on the Nazis and World War II, stretches back nearly 20 years. His body of work has won him several awards, including a BAFTA and a Grierson Award. He was educated at Solihull School and Oxford University and is the former Creative Director of BBC TV History programmes.