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Auschwitz: A New History
by Laurence Rees
This isn't the first literature I've read regarding the Holocaust but it is the first book specifically about Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This book is easy to read, even though the topic is hard to stomach - the author describes the various stages of the Final Solution and how Auschwitz came to be the most prolific killing machine in history. He uses interviews from SS officers and Jews , and tells us that even to their last breath, the Nazis didn't see their actions as wrong. They viewed the extermination of the Jews as a mistake , but only because it heaped the hatred of the world upon Germany.
Soon, as the author reminds us, the Holocaust will be consigned to history as a memory , and that every single witness to history's greatest atrocity will be dead- we must never forget , and make sure these books are read, digested and learned from.
This book is easy to read, even though the topic is hard to stomach - the author describes the various stages of the Final Solution and how Auschwitz came to be the most prolific killing machine in history. He uses interviews from SS officers and Jews , and tells us that even to their last breath, the Nazis didn't see their actions as wrong. They viewed the extermination of the Jews as a mistake , but only because it heaped the hatred of the world upon Germany.
Soon, as the author reminds us, the Holocaust will be consigned to history as a memory , and that every single witness to history's greatest atrocity will be dead- we must never forget , and make sure these books are read, digested and learned from.