The Holocaust : a new history

Resource Information

The work The Holocaust : a new history represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Holocaust : a new history

Title remainder

a new history

Statement of responsibility

Laurence Rees

Creator

• Rees, Laurence, 1957-

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Interviews -- History and criticism
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources
• Holocaust survivors -- Interviews -- History and criticism
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
• Jews -- Europe -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Sources
• Interviews

Language

eng

Summary

This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines their enthralling eyewitness testimony, a large amount of which has never been published before, with the latest academic research to create the first accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust in more than three decades. This is a new history of the Holocaust in three ways. First, and most importantly, Rees has created a gripping narrative that contains a large amount of testimony that has never been published before. Second, he places this powerful interview material in the context of 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. Third, Rees covers all those across Europe who participated in the deaths, and he argues that whilst hatred of the Jews was always at the epicentre of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill millions of non-Jews, including homosexuals, "Gypsies" and the disabled. 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

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

940.53/18

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult