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000321430 24510 $$aAuschwitz :$$ba new history /$$cLaurence Rees.
000321430 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPublic Affairs,$$c2005.
000321430 300__ $$axxii, 327 p. ;$$c24 cm.
000321430 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-312) and index.
000321430 5050_ $$aSurprising beginnings -- Orders and initiatives -- Factories of death -- Corruption -- Frenzied killing -- Liberation and retribution.
000321430 520__ $$aAuschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that turned between guards and prisoners, to the on-camp brothel in which the lines between those guards and prisoners became surprisingly blurred. Rees examines the strategic decisions that led the Nazi leadership to prescribe Auschwitz as its primary site for the extinction of Europe's Jews-their "Final Solution." He concludes that many of the horrors that were perpetrated in Auschwitz were driven not just by ideological inevitability but as a "practical" response to a war in the East that had begun to go wrong for Germany. A terrible immoral pragmatism characterizes many of the decisions that determined what happened at Auschwitz. Thus the story of the camp becomes a morality tale, too, in which evil is shown to proceed in a series of deft, almost noiseless incremental steps until it produces the overwhelming horror of the industrial scale slaughter that was inflicted in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Insights gleaned from more than one hundred original interviews shed new light on history's most famous death camp, with the testimonies of survivors providing a detailed and chilling portrait of the camp's inner workings, in a companion volume to the PBS documentary.
000321430 61020 $$aAuschwitz (Concentration camp)$$xHistory.
000321430 650_0 $$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$$zPoland.
000321430 650_0 $$aHolocaust survivors$$vInterviews.
000321430 650_0 $$aWar criminals$$zGermany$$vInterviews.
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