Auschwitz
- Synopsis
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Rees, who has spent 15 years writing books and working on BBC television programs about the Nazis, sees Auschwitz as the perfect microcosm to help readers understand one of the worst and least understandable crimes in history. The camp had a certain beginning (the first prisoners arrived in June 1940) and a definite end (it was liberated in January 1945); in between, Auschwitz had a complex and surprising history, made up of incremental, almost noiseless steps that mirrored changes in the intricacies of Nazi racial and ethnic policy. The study of Auschwitz, Rees notes, also affords the chance to understand how people behaved in some of the most extreme conditions ever recorded. The volume, based on hundreds of interviews with Nazi perpetrators and camp survivors, is a companion to the PBS documentary "Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. " Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781610390118
- Publisher:
- Perseus
- Date of Addition:
- 09/21/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Laurence Rees.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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History,
Nonfiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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