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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Absolutely brilliant. I've not read a "complete" history of the Haulocaust before. Laurence Rees writes clearly, straight to the point, and without sensationalism. He provides enlightening insights into the deep origins of the Holocaust -- why and how it happened. Anti-Semitism was a phenomenon that ran deep around the world at the time. I found it deeply disturbing, of course. It's almost impossible to get one's head around what happened during the Holocaust and how something so horrifying could happen. I particularly appreciated the way the author brings the voices of real people to the story. His quoting of them brings home the personal nature of the suffering that millions of people went through. It's a large book, but I couldn't put it down. In my opinion, every adult should read this. I can't recommend this book enough. ( ) Important new work on this most horrific event. I have reviewed two films - Austerlitz and Son of Saul as well. I still cannot quite get my mind around the potential depravity of human beings. Rees sheds new light on the Nazi industrialization of death, combining archival histories, oral histories and newly available material from the East after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The picture that emerges is a more complex and less coordinated one than previously thought--with stark differences between peoples that took risks to aid Jews and others. no reviews | add a review
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This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines their enthralling eyewitness testimony, a large amount of which has never been published before, with the latest academic research to create the first accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust in more than three decades. This is a new history of the Holocaust in three ways. First, and most importantly, Rees has created a gripping narrative that contains a large amount of testimony that has never been published before. Second, he places this powerful interview material in the context of an examination of the decision making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. Third, Rees covers all those across Europe who participated in the deaths, and he argues that whilst hatred of the Jews was always at the epicentre of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill millions of non-Jews, including homosexuals, "Gypsies" and the disabled. Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history. No library descriptions found. |
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