Where did the hatred towards Jews come from in Germany? When was the plan of the extermination created? Why didn't the Nazis stop murdering their victims even when the war was lost? It seems that we know everything about the Holocaust. But are you sure?
How and why were nearly six million Jews murdered using industrial methods, under the supervision of the state apparatus of the Third Reich? After hundreds of interviews with Holocaust survivors, with its perpetrators and eyewitnesses over the course of twenty-five years, Laurence Rees combines in the book their testimonies, most of them never published, with the latest findings of historians, creating a chronological story of the greatest crime committed in the 20th century in Europe.
It proves that although the foundation of Nazi ideology was hatred of Jews, it is impossible to understand their tragedy in isolation from Nazi plans to systematically eliminate millions of other people:physically and intellectually disabled, communists, Roma, Poles, Russians.
Learn the full story of the greatest crime in human history in Laurence Rees' book The Holocaust. New history ”(Prószyński i S-ka, 2018).
He also uncovers internal machinations at the highest levels of the Nazi state leadership, showing that the Holocaust was not a carefully planned action, initiated by a single order, but the result of a series of small decisions made at various levels of government as a result of local initiatives and individual ambitions, and sometimes by mere coincidence. which accumulated to create factories of death and to commit atrocities unprecedented in the history of mankind.
Anyone looking for an explanation of the genesis and course of the Holocaust must reach for Laurence Rees' wonderful book - comprehensive, yet fully understandable, based on the latest research and enriched with shocking interviews.
Professor Sir Ian Kershaw - historian and writer
Cattle cars, gas chambers, camp wire, columns of black smoke rising into the sky. The British historian portrays the horror of the Holocaust with shocking naturalism. We are witnessing unimaginable human suffering and equally unimaginable human bestiality. There has never been such a book on the Holocaust.
Piotr Zychowicz - historical journalist
During World War II, the Germans murdered nearly 6 million Jews.
A Masterpiece, Laurence Rees' best book by far. Rees examines every aspect of the Holocaust, from the birth of an idea to the liberation of the concentration camps. It tells the entire story of the most shameful period in human history.
Andrew Roberts - historian
Laurence Rees - British historian, author of numerous books and documentaries devoted to the Second World War. The author's most important publications include:“Naziści. A Warning of History ”,“ Hitler and Stalin. The War of the Century "," Auschwitz. The Nazis and the Final Solution "," Executioners and Victims. Atrocities of World War II and their perpetrators "," Behind Closed Doors. Backstage of World War II "and" The Sinister Charisma of Adolf Hitler ". Most publications are accompanied by documentaries made by the author for BBC television.
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