Un molt bon llibre que explica de manera força clara els origens i el funcionamient de l'Holocaust. ( )

Un'efficace storia complessiva dell'Olocausto, dalle prime forme di discriminazione alla Soluzione finale, che combina in modo originale le testimonianze di sopravvissuti, assassini e colpevoli con le ricerche storiografiche piú recenti. (fonte: Google Books)

Tras veinticinco años de investigaciones acerca de la Alemania nazi, con libros como Auschwitz, Laurence Rees culmina su obra con esta visión global, que Nikolaus Wachsmann, el autor de KL, califica como «una de las mejores síntesis de la historia del Holocausto».

Este es un libro que se basa en la larga experiencia de trabajo de Rees: en sus visitas a los escenarios originales y en sus búsquedas en los archivos, pero sobre todo en las conversaciones con centenares de supervivientes de los campos de exterminio, recogidas en entrevistas filmadas, muchas de las cuales aparcen aquí por primera vez. Rees nos cuenta esta historia desde sus orígenes, desde que el odio antisemita de los nazis animó las primeras persecuciones, hasta el hundimiento del Reich, en un relato que cobra una fuerza y una emotividad especiales al llegarnos puntuado por las voces de las víctimas y de los verdugos. ( )

Absolutely brilliant. I've not read a "complete" history of the Haulocaust before. Laurence Rees writes clearly, straight to the point, and without sensationalism. He provides enlightening insights into the deep origins of the Holocaust -- why and how it happened. Anti-Semitism was a phenomenon that ran deep around the world at the time. I found it deeply disturbing, of course. It's almost impossible to get one's head around what happened during the Holocaust and how something so horrifying could happen. I particularly appreciated the way the author brings the voices of real people to the story. His quoting of them brings home the personal nature of the suffering that millions of people went through. It's a large book, but I couldn't put it down. In my opinion, every adult should read this. I can't recommend this book enough. ( )

Important new work on this most horrific event. I have reviewed two films - Austerlitz and Son of Saul as well. I still cannot quite get my mind around the potential depravity of human beings. Rees sheds new light on the Nazi industrialization of death, combining archival histories, oral histories and newly available material from the East after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The picture that emerges is a more complex and less coordinated one than previously thought--with stark differences between peoples that took risks to aid Jews and others. ( )