Auschwitz

Sixty years ago the world was horrified by the discovery of the reality of Auschwitz, the scene of the greatest massacre in human history: one million one hundred thousand human beings murdered, including more than two hundred thousand children. But, beyond the images and the testimonies of the victims, the reality of what Auschwitz was and meant has continued to escape our perception.Laurence Rees, who has been researching Nazism for fifteen years, has not only used the documentation that has appeared in recent years, but has used more than a hundred interviews with camp survivors and their Nazi executioners, who for the first time speak of their experiences, now that they risk nothing to leave testimony of what they have experienced. This is the first complete account of the history of Auschwitz, which became an immense workshop that worked for the war, as well as a death factory, where children ended up being thrown into the bonfires alive, for not giving supply the gas chambers. A unique place, with corrupt officials, with bloodthirsty doctors like Mengele and even with a brothel to encourage "hard-working" prisoners. But perhaps the most terrible thing is to know that about eighty-five percent of the members of the SS who worked in the fields and survived the war have gone unpunished, who neither repent nor believe it is necessary to excuse themselves by obeying orders. received and that this does not seem to scandalize your fellow citizens today. This book aims to awaken our consciences so that together we can prevent another Auschwitz from happening again.