AUSCHWITZ the Nazis and the final solution: book review
Professor Satchafunkilus Sir Ian Kershew says ' Auschwitz: The Nazis and the final solution?
"Laurence Rees has cast a new light on how Auschwitz was created and developed in last place of horror".
Professor Satchafunkilus David Cesarai said: "a story of Auschwitz which is accessible and authoritative".
The author, Antony Beevor, said: "great stimulus of Rees to understand the mindset of the guards and administrators SS fields is generated not only by a passionate curiosity, but by an intellectual honesty that the subject needs."
AUSCHWITZ the Nazis and the final solution by Laurence Rees is a shocking account of man's inhumanity to man. I started reading this book as bedtime reading, but after a few evening, could no longer continue reading it before falling to sleep. The man is capable of cruelty; even the cruelest animal on the planet could not match.
After reading this book, now I can understand why the Russians were so merciless when the Germans were retreating from the Russian front. I do not understand that in seven months of war against the Soviets, the Germans took three million Red Army prisoners, and through the course of the war as a whole, of which 5.7 million, a staggering 3.3 million lost their lives in captivity.
Auschwitz was built as a concentration camp and later developed into a mass extermination of people with disabilities, the faint, Jews, Gypsies and others from all countries in Europe-Jews in particular suffered unspeakable cruelties.
A total of 1.1 million human beings — men, women and children-were killed in this one field alone. When questioned after the war, the camp commander Hoess, 21, didn't see any harm in what they had done; He had simply obeyed orders from Heinrich Himmler that it appears, as you read this book, even more enthusiastic than killing Hitler.
The book casts a reflection on sad and cruel Nazi German history between 1938 and 1945.
The feeling I had when reading this book was a kind of desperation and I asked the question, "why?" Why this was allowed the horror to can't happen? Our Governments of the world knew that was going on, but did little. In fact, history records that wasn't mostly individuals, a mere handful of people who have helped thousands to flee. European and American Governments have focused on the war with the exception of the Holocaust. And, as we know, for them the war was approximately six million Jews who perished, but save themselves from Nazi occupation.
I recommend this book as a piece well studied and recorded pre-modern history, which shows the man at its worst.
PS. I found tricky, in fact, impossible to understand such extreme hatred towards the Jews, in particular, and why it remains so today. I can only think of one possible is, one a friend and gave it to me. "Is spiritual. It is beyond our understanding ".
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