Laurence Rees

Tras veinticinco años de investigaciones acerca de la Alemania nazi, con libros como Auschwitz, Laurence Rees culmina su obra con esta visión global, que Nikolaus Wachsmann, el autor de KL, califica como una de las mejores sintesis de la historia del Holocausto.Este es un libro que se basa en la larga experiencia de trabajo de Rees: en sus visitas a los escenarios originales y en sus busquedas en los archivos, pero sobre todo en las conversaciones con centenares de supervivientes de los campos de exterminio, recogidas en entrevistas filmadas, muchas de las cuales aparcen aqui por primera vez. Rees nos cuenta esta historia desde sus origenes, desde que el odio antisemita de los nazis animo las primeras persecuciones, hasta el hundimiento del Reich, en un relato que cobra una fuerza y una emotividad especiales al llegarnos puntuado por las voces de las victimas y de los verdugos.

Una innovadora historia que desentraña las motivaciones y mentalidades que subyacen tras los nazis y sus partidarios. ¿Cómo pudieron los nazis cometer los crímenes que cometieron? ¿Por qué los coman

Una innovadora historia que desentraña las motivaciones y mentalidades que subyacen tras los nazis y sus partidarios. ¿Cómo pudieron los nazis cometer los crímenes que cometieron? ¿Por qué los comandantes de los campos de concentracion y exterminio supervisaron de buen grado a menudo con entusiasmo los asesinatos en masa? ¿Como pudieron los alemanes de a pie tolerar la eliminacion de los judios? En En la mente nazi, Laurence Rees combina la historia y las ultimas investigaciones en psicologia para ayudar a responder algunas de las preguntas mas desconcertantes que rodean la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Holocausto: como y por que estas personas fueron capaces de cometer el peor crimen de la historia de la humanidad. Para ello, utiliza testimonios ineditos de militantes nazis y de personas que crecieron en el sistema nazi asi como profundos conocimientos psicologicos que incluyen trabajos de vanguardia sobre la obediencia, la autoridad y el cerebro. En la mente nazi ofrece una nueva y reveladora forma de entender como tantas personas pudieron cometer el crimen mas atroz del siglo XX. Rees traza el ascenso y posterior caida de los nazis a traves de la lente de las doce advertencias, desde el discurso sobre ellos y nosotros hasta la escalada del racismo, al tiempo que destaca las señales a las que hay que estar atentos respecto a los lideres actuales.

El ensayo definitivo sobre el horror de AuschwitzAuschwitz se convirtió en una fábrica de muerte, donde se arrojaba a los niños vivos a las hogueras. Un lugar atroz, con médicos sanguinarios como Mengele y hasta con un burdel para estimular a los prisioneros mas trabajadores. Pero tal vez lo mas terrible resulte saber que mas del 85% de los miembros de lasSS que sobrevivieron a la guerra han quedado impunes.

Este libro sobre Hitler y Stalin –la culminación de treinta años de trabajo— examina a los dos líderes durante la segunda guerra mundial, cuando Alemania y la Unión Soviética libraron la mayor y más

Trenta y cinco historias que nos acercan a las atrocidades de la segunda guerra mundial.Durante veinte años Laurence Rees ha recorrido el mundo entero entrevistando a centenares de supervivientes de la segunda guerra mundial, y ha recogido los testimonios y confesiones de violadores, asesinos en masa e incluso canibales, a la vez que los de las victimas que sobrevivieron, o los de quienes lucharon con valor y dignidad. Parte de estos materiales le sirvieron para construir libros tan esplendidos como Auschwitz, pero algunas de las historias mas terribles, algunas de las paginas negras, que no encajaban en ellos, le han seguido inquietando y las recupera hoy para enfrentarse al reto de explicar como fue posible que hubiera seres humanos capaces de cometer tales atrocidades. Estas treinta y cinco historias de hombres y mujeres de las mas diversas nacionalidades y condiciones, que Ian Kershaw ha calificado como soberbias, inquietantes y aterradoras, componen un libro del que Antony Beevor ha dicho que representa una enorme contribucion a nuestra comprension de la segunda guerra mundial.

The enthralling narrative is a mix of high politics - including the inside story of the Allies'' meetings at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam - and the dramatic personal experiences of those on the ground who bore the consequences of their decisions.La apasionante narracion es una mezcla de alta politica, incluyendo la historia intima de las reuniones aliadas en Teheran, Yalta y Postdam, y las dramaticas experiencias personales de aquellos que sufrieron en el frente las consecuencias de aquellas decisiones.

« De loin le livre le plus éclairant jamais écrit sur lHolocauste, mais aussi le meilleur pour comprendre les origines du projet, son caractère aberrant, autant que son déroulement chaotique. »Antony

The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians?" During the First World War, the Japanese fought on the side of the Allies and treated German POWs with respect and civility. In the years that followed, under Emperor Hirohito, conformity was the norm and the Japanese psyche became one of selfless devotion to country and emperor; soon Japanese soldiers were to engage in mass murder, rape, and even cannibalization of their enemies. Horror in the East examines how this drastic change came about. On the basis of never-before-published interviews with both the victimizers and the victimized, and drawing on never-before-revealed or long-ignored archival records, Rees discloses the full horror of the war in the Pacific, probing the supposed Japanese belief in their own racial superiority, analyzing a military that believed suicide to be more honorable than surrender, and providing what the Guardian calls "a powerful, harrowing account of appalling inhumanity...impeccably researched."

This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust. In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians. Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history.

"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has met more people who had direct experience of working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool. Its a jaw-dropping description of two regimes stripped of moral anchors and doomed to destroy each other, and those caught up in the vicious magnetism of their leadership.

O conceituado historiador Laurence Rees mergulha nas profundezas dos regimes cruéis de Hitler e Estaline e mostra até que ponto os dois homens brutalizaram o mundo à sua volta.Dois ditadores do sécul

Uma narrativa decisiva das motivaçes e mentalidades do movimento nazi e dos seus apoiantesComo puderam os nazis cometer os crimes que cometeram? Por que razo comandantes de campos de concentraço e de morte levaram a cabo com frequencia - e, muitas vezes, entusiasticamente - assassinios em massa? Como puderam os alemes comuns tolerar as atrocidades que se perpetravam?Neste livro, o autor bestseller Laurence Rees combina testemunhos ineditos de ex-nazis e daqueles que cresceram no sistema nazi com a mais recente investigaço psicologica em obediencia e autoridade, para ajudar a responder a algumas das questes mais perturbadoras relativas a Segunda Guerra Mundial e ao Holocausto.Da politica das franjas da decada de 1920 ao triunfo eleitoral e a mobilizaço em massa da decada de 1930, passando pelo Holocausto e pelo eventual desaparecimento do regime, Laurence Rees traça a ascenso e queda das mentalidades nazis - incluindo as condiçes que permitiram o florescimento de uma ideologia to violenta e o sofisticado esforço de propaganda que a sustentou - pela lente de "12 Avisos", destacando os sinais a que devemos estar atentos nos atuais lideres.Os elogios da critica:"Um livro oportuno, relevante e importante."Sir Ian Kershaw, autor bestseller"Nunca as questes que nos atormentam sobre a conduta do Terceiro Reich foram submetidas a uma analise to funesta, brilhante, atual e reveladora."The Independent"Laurence Rees esta numa posiço unica para olhar para este periodo temporal atraves de uma nova perspetiva. Este e um trabalho brilhante: bem fundamentado, convincente e francamente aterrorizador."The Telegraph"A Mentalidade Nazi relata o modo como o nazismo atraiu e manteve os seus muitos milhes de seguidores. Mais do que um lembrete implacavel e pormenorizado dos horrores do passado, assente em decadas de investigaço exaustiva, e, inequivocamente, um desafio para analisarmos a nossa consciencia e agirmos em conformidade."Frederick Taylor, autor de O Muro de Berlim"Um estudo fascinante que oferece novas perspetivas sobre as forças psicologicas que impulsionam os nazis - leitura essencial para quem procura respostas para a assustadora questo de como e por que razo a Alemanha foi consumida pela maldade de Hitler."Julia Boyd, autora de A Village in the Third Reich"Um livro urgente e profundamente necessario. Uma historia que, como uma lanterna, ilumina o interior mais sombrio da natureza humana. Ao escavar profundamente abaixo da superficie da historia familiar, Laurence Rees mostra-nos que o dominio dos nazis no e uma historia de monstros, mas sim de humanidade reconhecivel. Um livro para o nosso tempo e para todos os tempos."Sinclair McKay, autor de Berlin e Dresden

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE NAZI MIND You have to read it Volodymyr ZelenskyLaurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account Professor Sir Ian KershawIn this fascinating study of two monsters, Rees is extraordinarily perceptive and original Antony BeevorTwo tyrants. Each responsible for the death of millions. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years work - examines the two leaders during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history.Hitlers charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalins regimented rule by fear; and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalins change in behaviour in response to events. But as bestselling historian Laurence Rees shows, at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt-of suffering - in Hitlers case, most infamously the Holocaust - in order to build the utopias they wanted.Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers, civilians and those who knew both men personally, Laurence Rees - probably the only person alive who has met Germans who worked for Hitler and Russians who worked for Stalin - challenges long-held popular misconceptions about two of the most important figures in history. This is a master work from one of our finest historians.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERI will recommend it to everyone Alastair CampbellWorld-renowned historian Laurence Rees lays out a past that is also eerily a cautionary tale for our future if we are not carefulAnthony ScaramucciThere are lots of moments when you cant help but have a shudder through the spine . . . a really novel, interesting book.Lewis Goodall, The News Agents podcast___________________________________How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did?Why did they willingly often enthusiastically oversee mass murder?How did ordinary Germans tolerate the removal of Jewish people?And how do we ensure it never happens again?Bestselling author Laurence Rees combines history and the latest psychological research to help answer the most perplexing questions surrounding the Holocaust and the Nazi state. Through the lens of twelve warnings from talk about them and us to the escalation of racism Rees delves into the darkness to explain how and why people were capable of such horrors.Using previously unpublished testimony from former Nazis and cutting-edge psychological discoveries, THE NAZI MIND is a revelatory new way of understanding the most appalling crimes of the 20th century that highlights the warning signs we need to look out for in leaders today.___________________________________A brilliant piece of work: learned, compelling and frankly terrifying James Holland, Daily Telegraph[A] superb, complex study Christopher Hart, Daily MailEnthralling and chilling . . . compulsive reading Robert McCrum, Independent

Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into the cataclysmic events of the Second World War.But how was Hitler able to exert such power over those around him? Award-winning historian and documentary maker Laurence Rees draws on twenty years of research into the Third Reich, as well as contemporary accounts of people who knew Hitler, to examine the nature of Hitlers appeal and reveal the role his unique charisma played in his success.Offering acerbic insight ... this arresting account asks and answers all the right questionsDaily Telegraph

Selling Politics investigates the secret world of political consultants, the men who create an image of their clients for the public eye.Author Laurence Rees argues that the roots of political propaganda lie in Nazi Germany with Hitlers master of visual propaganda, Dr Josef Goebbels. Goebbels passion for cinema led him to discover the Great Truth, namely that in order for film propaganda to persuade it must entertain rather than inform. Over the past thirty years the use of film and television propaganda had flourished, particularly in the United States where a candidates ability to woo voters on the screen is fundamental to his success in a presidential election.Rees shows how television manipulates its viewers into making judgements based purely on the visual image and explains why propaganda works best when it engages the emotions rather than the intellect. We see clearly how these insidious techniques have also played a key role in contemporary British politics as consultants have followed the example of their American counterparts.Written in1992, a year that encompassed a general election in Britain and a presidential election in the United States, Selling Politics is a book for our times. It will fascinate readers who care about the practice of politics and the way democracy functions as the 21st century approaches.