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WW2 - the Key Questions, answered by Laurence Rees.

WW2 - the Key Questions, answered by Laurence Rees.

By: Laurence Rees
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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.'© 2023 WW2 - the Key Questions, answered by Laurence Rees. Art
Episodes
  • How did Auschwitz evolve into a place where over a million people were murdered?

    How did Auschwitz evolve into a place where over a million people were murdered?
    Feb 24 2021

    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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    34 mins
  • Is it valid to compare Hitler and Trump?

    Is it valid to compare Hitler and Trump?
    Feb 24 2021

    Award winning historian, Laurence Rees, answers a key question with a difference. In the light of all of the attempts on social media to compare Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler, Laurence examines the validity of a comparison between the two. 
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    23 mins
  • Why did Hitler hate the Jews?

    Why did Hitler hate the Jews?
    Feb 24 2021

    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.'
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    21 mins
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this is nothing more than a political rant.
completely inaccurate when describing a man who got more votes than any sitting leader in history.
relevant or irrelevant seeing as we are heading into ww3 with biden a completely demonstrably incompetent potus who is undoubtedly the reason putin has took the risk of invading ukraine.
I did not know he had a position at the BBC but his biased and one sided left wing and innacurate comments and views make sense and are completely in keeping with why the BBC are failing and irrelevant in today's world.

political ..left wing rant..

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In my view Laurence Rees is doing, and continues to do things that other purely academic historians don't, and that is to humanise the story. This series of podcasts does grapple with some big questions and it does it in a nuanced and well informed way. a great listen.

Thought provoking

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