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A former Head of BBC TV History programmes, Laurence has specialized in writing books and making television documentaries about World War Two, the Nazis and Stalinism for thirty years. He won a BAFTA and a Peabody for his TV series 'The Nazis: A Warning from History' and a British Book Award for his book on Auschwitz, which is also the world's best selling book on this notorious camp. His book 'the Holocaust: A New History' was described by the Times as 'exemplary' and by the Daily Telegraph as 'the best single volume account of the atrocity ever written'. Educated at Oxford University, for several years he was a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics, London University. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield and the Open University. Professor Robert Service, of Oxford University, described Rees as 'one of the world's experts on the Second World War'. Sir Max Hastings wrote in the Sunday Times, in a review of Laurence Rees' 'World War Two: Behind Closed Doors' that 'Rees knows a vast amount about the Second World War and his judgments can seldom be faulted.'
- 6 - How did Auschwitz evolve into a place where over a million people were murdered?
Award winning historian, Laurence Rees, answers the key question - How did Auschwitz evolve into a place where over a million people were murdered? Laurence is the author of 'Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' which won history book of the year at the British Book Awards. It is also the world's bestselling book on the history of the camp. Laurence also wrote and produced the accompanying six part TV series on Auschwitz for BBC TV and PBS.
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- 4 - Why did Hitler hate the Jews?
Award winning historian, Laurence Rees, answers the key question - Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Laurence is the author of 'the Holocaust: A New History', described by the Sunday Times as 'absorbing, heart breaking', by the Mail on Sunday as 'Groundbreaking' and by the Daily Telegraph as 'The finest single volume account of the Holocaust.'
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 - 3 - How best can we compare Hitler and Stalin?
Award winning historian, Laurence Rees, answers the key question - How best can we compare Hitler and Stalin. Laurence's latest book 'Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War' has recently been published in the UK and in America. It was described as 'always compelling' by the Times, 'an impressive parallel study' by the Telegraph, and the Times Literary Supplement concluded that 'as this book brilliantly shows, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were blood brothers.'
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 - 2 - Why did Hitler invade Stalin's Soviet Union?Wed, 24 Feb 2021
- 1 - Why did World War Two happen?Wed, 24 Feb 2021
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