The Holocaust: a New History
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About This Novel
Lawrence Rees spent twenty-five years interviewing survivors and perpetrators of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and organically integrated eyewitness testimonies with recent academic research into this far-reaching history, revealing how this most notorious crime in human history was carried out. Rees believes that hatred of Jews was undoubtedly at the core of Nazi ideology, but we cannot fully understand the nature of the Holocaust without taking into account that the Nazis also planned to kill millions of non-Jews. Rees pointed out that there was no master plan for the massacre, but rather an escalation of a series of horrific crimes. There is no doubt that Hitler bears primary responsibility for what happened, but Rees also reminds us that the universality of guilt and the persistence of its consequences are "at the heart of the disturbing and evasive question."
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