The Holocaust: A New History

by Laurence Rees

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610398459
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	10,240
File size:	72 MB
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About the Author

Laurence Rees is an award-winning historian and documentary film maker, and author of Auschwitz, and Holocaust, both published by PublicAffairs. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations ix

Prologue xiii

1 Origins of Hate 1

2 Birth of the Nazis (1919-1923) 14

3 From Revolution to Ballot Box (1924-1933) 29

4 Consolidating Power (1933-1934) 54

5 The Nuremberg Laws (1934-1935) 84

6 Education and Empire-Building (1935-1938) 94

7 Radicalization (1938-1939) 118

8 The Start of Racial War (1939-1940) 151

9 Persecution in the West (1940-1941) 179

10 War of Extermination (1941) 205

11 The Road to Wannsee (1941-1942) 241

12 Search and Kill (1942) 271

13 Nazi Death Camps in Poland (1942) 295

14 Killing, and Persuading Others to Help (1942-1943) 314

15 Oppression and Revolt (1943) 334

16 Auschwitz (1943-1944) 357

17 Hungarian Catastrophe (1944) 376

18 Murder to the End (1944-1945) 403

Postscript 425

Acknowledgements 431

Notes 433

Index 493

Editorial Reviews

"Anyone wanting a compelling, highly readable explanation of how and why the Holocaust happened, drawing on recent scholarship and impressively incorporating moving and harrowing interviews with victims as well as chilling accounts by perpetrators, need look no further than Rees's brilliant book." -Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back and Hitler, A Biography.

"This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development."-Antony Beevor, bestelling author of Stalingrad, Berlin, and The Second World War

"A masterpiece... Rees' best book yet" -Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War

From the Publisher

★ 04/01/2017
Historian Rees (former head of BBC TV History Programmes; Auschwitz: A New History) combines thorough scholarship of the Nazi era with his own vast archive of interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders to create a comprehensive, chilling, and readable history of the Holocaust. As the Third Reich rose and conquered European countries, methods of solving the "Jewish problem" evolved. Extermination of the Jews remained a primary Nazi battlefront even as loss to the Allies was imminent. Exploring the processes and choices that resulted in mass murder, Rees convincingly shows that although Nazi ideology was based on many twisted and hateful racial theories, Jews were especially targeted for eradication. Similar to Martin Gilbert's The Holocaust, survivor testimony is compelling, especially since it is shadowed by the inability of millions of victims to speak for themselves. The Holocaust was a horrible crime against humanity that sadly continues to be denied and perpetrated in different forms around the world. VERDICT Rees's ability to weave parallel global and personal histories makes this an outstanding, necessary, and timely book that should engage all readers of high school age or above.—Laurie Unger Skinner, Coll. of Lake Cty., Waukegan, IL

Library Journal

The big secret to sales success? A simple truth: Motivated, positive, goal-oriented people are usually the ones who sell the most. Even if you don’t think you have these vital qualities, you can develop them in yourself — with the right help. (Realtor Magazine, July 2006)

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