Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitza devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known. The Washington Post - Don Von Drehle Laurence Rees's compact, devastating new history of the infamous death factory distills a crucial lesson -- perhaps the crucial lesson -- of the 20th century: that the human capacity for mass murder is grotesquely widespread and must be faced squarely if we hope to resist it.
1Surprising beginnings12Orders and initiatives573Factories of death1094Corruption1655Frenzied killing2196Liberation and retribution259