The Holocaust: A New History
“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, bestselling author of Stalingrad

Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust.
 
In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians.
 
Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history.
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The Holocaust: A New History
“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, bestselling author of Stalingrad

Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust.
 
In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians.
 
Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history.
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The Holocaust: A New History

The Holocaust: A New History

by Laurence Rees
The Holocaust: A New History

The Holocaust: A New History

by Laurence Rees

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“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, bestselling author of Stalingrad

Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust.
 
In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians.
 
Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541730076
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 07/24/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 560
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Laurence Rees is an award-winning historian and documentary filmmaker. He has authored several books including Hitler and Stalin, the bestselling, Auschwitz: A New History,  and his forthcoming title, The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History. 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

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