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Release Year
2006
ISBN
9781586483579

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Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1586483579
ISBN-13
9781586483579
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46465347

Product Key Features

Book Title
Auschwitz : a New History
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / Eastern, Genocide & War Crimes, Europe / Poland
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Author
Laurence Rees
Format
Perfect

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1 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
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LCCN
2004-043196
Reviews
"A path-breaking work...the depth and wealth of detail Rees provides make this treatment highly compelling."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "This book distills a crucial lesson--perhaps the crucial lesson--of the 20th century: that the human capacity for mass murder is grotesquely widespread and must be faced squarely if we hope to resist it."-- Washington Post, "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, "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, "This admirable book deserves to be widely read."-- Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris and Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.53/1853858
Synopsis
This vivid and harrowing narrative 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., Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz--a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known., 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.
LC Classification Number
D805.5.A96R44

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  • by UWqB242FStW@Deleted
    29 Nov, 2018

    An indepth explanation of the holocaust

    I have read much about the holocaust but this book has indepth information with dates, facts, and background history that explains how and why this atrocity occured. It tells us about Jewish culture, beliefs, how they were overwhelmed and disbelieving until it was too late. It also explains the German point of view, how indoctrination formed total control of their actions and consuming behavior. Excellent book.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: oneplanetbooks

  • by chealy717
    17 Feb, 2021

    Cannot call this topic "good," but it is a lot of truthful information, presented honestly.

    Serious presentation of a grim chapter in world history. Very much of interest to World War II historians and others. If it happened there, it could happen anywhere. Eternal vigilance is needed to combat racism bigotry and anti-Semitism from the right wing.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned

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