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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite quote I now live by came from this book....<br/>when a survivor was asked how he made it through Auschwitz, he replied &quot;worse things have happened to better people&quot;.  I think twice about my woes when I think of his response...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting, a lot of what I've heard before and some new horrors I couldn't have imagined, as well as some information about camp life that I was unaware of.  People should never stop reading about this period of history.<br/>The book is a collection of historical facts about victims including; Jew...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58667378">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very moving and disturbing book.  Rees interviewed dozens of Auschwitz survivors, as well as several former Nazi officials.  What emerges is a shocking and sobering look at human nature in the midst of world war.<br/><br/>I chose to only give this book three stars because I feel that th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72778284">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would highly recommend this book. There is some new information integrated into the vignette-like narrative. Like, &quot;The Final Solution&quot; letter penned by, who was it, Himmler (?), did not refer to the extermination of the Jews. Since the fall of the Berlin wall, more information has be ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49511180">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known.<p> Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In <em>Auschwitz</em>, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that turned between guards and prisoners, to the on-camp brothel in which the lines between those guards and prisoners became surprisingly blurred. <p> Rees examines the strategic decisions that led the Nazi leadership to prescribe Auschwitz as its primary site for the extinction of Europe's Jews-their&quot;Final Solution.&quot; He concludes that many of the horrors that were perpetrated in Auschwitz were driven not just by ideological inevitability but as a&quot;practical&quot; response to a war in the East that had begun to go wrong for Germany. A terrible immoral pragmatism characterizes many of the decisions that determined what happened at Auschwitz. Thus the story of the camp becomes a morality tale, too, in which evil is shown to proceed in a series of deft, almost noiseless incremental steps until it produces the overwhelming horror of the industrial scale slaughter that was inflicted in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outstanding read . . . couldn't put it down . . . a fair bit of stuff in here in terms of atrocities that I hadn't heard about before . . . probably worth a reread in the years ahead . . . I also own the television documentary that was written in connection with the book, so I recalled the faces and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67612957">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known.<p> Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In <em>Auschwitz</em>, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that turned between guards and prisoners, to the on-camp brothel in which the lines between those guards and prisoners became surprisingly blurred. <p> Rees examines the strategic decisions that led the Nazi leadership to prescribe Auschwitz as its primary site for the extinction of Europe's Jews-their&quot;Final Solution.&quot; He concludes that many of the horrors that were perpetrated in Auschwitz were driven not just by ideological inevitability but as a&quot;practical&quot; response to a war in the East that had begun to go wrong for Germany. A terrible immoral pragmatism characterizes many of the decisions that determined what happened at Auschwitz. Thus the story of the camp becomes a morality tale, too, in which evil is shown to proceed in a series of deft, almost noiseless incremental steps until it produces the overwhelming horror of the industrial scale slaughter that was inflicted in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting read on the Auschwitz you thought you knew.  I won't spoil anything, but it wasn't (exactly) planned as the place it became infamous for.  As much as an exploration of an evolution of the Nazi thought process regarding the &quot;final solution&quot; as a history of Auschwitz itself.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Devastating, tragic, haunting and a book that should be required reading for all high school students so that we never forget.]]></body>
    
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