Auschwitz the Nazis and the Final Solution

"Thank God That Occasionally Books of the Stature of Laurence Rees's Superb "Auschwitz the Nazis and the Final Solution" Are Published That Try to Redress the Balance. Fascinating." - Andrew Roberts, Evening Standard. in His Highly Acclaimed Bestseller "Auschwitz", Author and Broadcaster Laurence Rees Tells the Definitive History of the Most Notorious Nazi Institution of Them All. We Discover How Auschwitz Evolved From a Concentration Camp for Polish Political Prisoners Into the Site of the Largest Mass Murder in History - Part Death Camp, Part Concentration Camp, Where Around a Million Jews Were Killed. Rees Uses "Auschwitz" As a Window Through Which to Examine the Holocaust in Its Broader Context. He Argues That, Far From Being an Aberration, the Camp Was a Uniquely Important Institution in the Nazi State, One That Played a Vital Role in the 'Final Solution'. "Auschwitz" Examines the Mentality and Motivations of the Key Nazi Decision Makers, and Perpetrators of Appalling Crimes