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Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

"This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets." —Walter Laqueur, The New Republic

..". a one-volume study of Auschwitz without peer in Holocaust literature." —Kirkus Reviews

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..". a comprehensive portrait of the largest and most lethal of the Nazi death camps... serves as a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark against forgetting." —Publishers Weekly

More than a million people were murdered at Auschwitz, of whom 90 percent were Jews. Here leading scholars from around the world provide the first comprehensive account of what took place at Auschwitz.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 656 pages

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