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Rees, Laurence. The Nazis: a warning from history
As we approach the end of the 21st century, it is important that we learn all that we can from those who have lived through the horrors of this current century while they are still alive. In the case of the Holocaust, those who lived through it--victims, victimizers and by-standers--are dying out and taking their memories and ideas with them. It is timely then, that Laurence Rees of the world-renowned BBC has both produced the television series The Nazis and has authored this companion book, The Nazis: A Warning from History. Unlike facile histories of the era that dismiss the Holocaust as an anomalous tragedy that was solely the fault of one man (Adolph Hitler) and which will probably never recur, this book...