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Auschwitz

Laurence Rees

How did Auschwitz change from a camp opened for one purpose into a site of mass murder, and what can we learn from it about ourselves?

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Author
Laurence Rees

Why read it

  • You will see how a crime on this scale grew in steps, shaped by shifting wartime events
  • You will learn what extreme conditions reveal about how human beings behave, perpetrators and survivors alike
  • You will be able to correct common confusion about what Auschwitz was and when it happened

Who it is for

  • A reader who wants the facts straight on a painful subject
  • A teacher or student of the Holocaust
  • Anyone asking how people come to take part in atrocity

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. CHAPTER 1 - SURPRISING BEGINNINGS
  3. CHAPTER 2 - ORDERS AND INITIATIVES
  4. CHAPTER 3 - FACTORIES OF DEATH
  5. CHAPTER 4 - CORRUPTION
  6. CHAPTER 5 - FRENZIED KILLING
  7. CHAPTER 6 - LIBERATION AND RETRIBUTION
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