Auschwitz: A New History - Paperback

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by Laurence Rees

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This "scrupulous and honest" (Washington Post) history of the most notorious concentration camp of the Holocaust preserves the authentic voices of survivors and perpetrators

The largest mass murder in human history took place in World War II at Auschwitz. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that turned between guards and prisoners, to the on-camp brothel in which the lines between those guards and prisoners became surprisingly blurred.

Rees examines the strategic decisions that led the Hitler and Himmler to make Auschwitz the primary site for the extinction of Europe's Jews-their "Final Solution." He concludes that many of the horrors that were perpetrated in Auschwitz were the result of a terrible immoral pragmatism. The story of the camp becomes a morality tale, too, in which evil is shown to proceed in a series of deft, almost noiseless incremental steps until it produces the overwhelming horror of the industrial scale slaughter that was inflicted in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

Author Biography

Laurence Rees is an award-winning historian and documentary filmmaker. He has authored several books, all published by PublicAffairs, including The Holocaust: A New History , Hitler and Stalin, and his forthcoming title, The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History. He lives in London.

Number of Pages: 368

Dimensions: 0.96 x 8.92 x 4.64 IN

Publication Date: January 10, 2006

Award: National Jewish Book Award (2006)

ISBN	9781586483579
Author	Laurence Rees
Publisher	PublicAffairs
Genre	History
Format	Paperback
Published	January 2006
Language	ENG- English
Pages	368
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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Laurence Rees is an award-winning historian and documentary filmmaker. He has authored several books including The Holocaust: A New History, Hitler and Stalin, and the bestselling Auschwitz: A New History, all published by PublicAffairs. He lives in London.

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