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Laddar... Auschwitz: A New History (utgåvan 2005)av Laurence Rees (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The history of the development of Auschqitz-Birkenau is one filled with horror, secrets, and often confusion, but this book does an admirable job of exploring many of the topics that get glossed over. I was very impressed particularly with the effort that the author made to examine the mindsets of many of the Nazy leaders who had direct influence over Jewish policy and the development of the death camps, as well as discusses the stories of lesser SS members who were involved in the everyday running of the camps. Much of this type of psychological speculation is just that - speculation - even though we do have many interviews, documents, and memoirs to work with, but by asking these questions we may be able to answer some of the large social questions that surround that time period, and come to realizations about why these events happenned. Excellent tome on The Final Solution, focusing (of course) on Auschwitz, the foremost concentration camp in The Third Reich, if one counts by the number of dead. Rees has researched the subject for many years, and even facts from the 21st century are included here. Apart from the sheer chronological dealings, Rees exemplifies, factualises and explains everything in lay-person terms, going to great extent to bring out the humanity of it all, i.e. how humans are at their worst and best in a variety of ways, before, during and after WWII. A must-read, as a brilliant accommodation to the likewise brilliant BBC TV series. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.531853858History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; Holocaust Holocaust Ghettos and Extermination Camps Germany & Central Europe PolandKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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