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This learned volume is about as chilling as historiographygets. — Walter Laqueur, The New Republic
... aone-volume study of Auschwitz without peer in Holocaust literature. — KirkusReviews
... a comprehensive portrait of the largest and mostlethal of the Nazi death camps... serves as a vital contribution to Holocauststudies and a bulwark against forgetting.? — PublishersWeekly
More than a million people were murdered at Auschwitz, ofwhom 90 percent were Jews. Here leading scholars from around the world provide thefirst comprehensive account of what took place at Auschwitz.
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Leading scholars from the united States, Israel, Poland, and other European countries provide a comprehensive account of what took place at the Auschwitz death camp. The book addresses the history of the camp, the technology and dimensions of the genocide carried out there, profiles of the perpetrators and the lives of inmates, underground resistance and escapes, and what the outside world knew about Auschwitz and when. 25 photos.
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
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Leading scholars from the united States, Israel, Poland, and other European countries provide a comprehensive account of what took place at the Auschwitz death camp. The book addresses the history of the camp, the technology and dimensions of the genocide carried out there, profiles of the perpetrators and the lives of inmates, underground resistance and escapes, and what the outside world knew about Auschwitz and when. 25 photos.
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