Auschwitz:

A New History

PUBLIC AFFAIRS Press, 2005 - History - 327 pages

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz 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 Nazi leadership to prescribe Auschwitz as its 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 driven not just by ideological inevitability but as a "practical" response to a war in the East that had begun to go wrong for Germany. A terrible immoral pragmatism characterizes many of the decisions that determined what happened at Auschwitz. Thus 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. Insights gleaned from more than one hundred original interviews shed new light on history's most famous death camp, with the testimonies of survivors providing a detailed and chilling portrait of the camp's inner workings, in a companion volume to the PBS documentary.

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In my personal opinion this is one of the best historical documentaries I have ever read. It honestly felt like I was reading a fictional thriller, keeping me gripped to each page wanting to know what ...

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This was an excellent book to follow up the book I read previously on the Einsatzgruppen. It is literally a detailed review of the decision to implement the concentration and death camps, as well as ... Read full review

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About the author (2005)

Laurence Rees is Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC and author of five books, including The Nazis: A Warning from History and Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II. He lives in London.

Bibliographic information

Title	Auschwitz: A New History
Author	Laurence Rees
Edition	illustrated, reprint
Publisher	PUBLIC AFFAIRS Press, 2005
ISBN	1586483579, 9781586483579
Length	327 pages
Subjects	History › Holocaust History / Holocaust

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