The Holocaust: A New History
February 8, 2020 - Comment
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Couldn’t have come at a better (or worse) time… It’s a great and thorough account of the events leading to Holocaust, as well as the mechanism of the atrocity itself.The style is engaging and concise, merging skilfully the quotations and eye witness statements with the purely academic, historical narrative.Still the most harrowing and lingering feeling one might have after finishing this rather fantastic book is that history often shifts one grain of sand at a time until circumstances change so rapidly that the horror becomes…
An extensive and detailed account of the build-up to what … An extensive and detailed account of the build-up to what we now call the Holocaust. The author demonstrates that this tragic event was not the result of one man’s deluded and demonic anti-semitism but was the result of the actions of series of actions and “experiments” by local pockets of anti-Jewish fervour led by a mixture of characters. Their motives varied from racism,revenge for a (wrongly) perceived result of the Jews having caused the German defeat in W.W.1, and the resulting…
A Truly Exceptional Book The quality and fascination of Laurence Rees writing style is remarkable. As a book that manages to shed some new angles on The Holocaust and the history of Germany from the 1920’s through to the end of World War II, this is a book that studies in fine detail the small and larger events that eventually lead to the worst atrocities for Germany and the various countries involved. This is a book that, much like ‘Their Darkest Hour’ or even ‘Auschwitz’ scans through events on a personal level…