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WW2 - THE KEY QUESTIONS
WW2 - The Key Questions, answered by Laurence Rees, is now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Laurence Rees' Blog

Hitler and Stalin
A selection of the previews of Laurence Rees' new book on Hitler and Stalin.
Expert interviews

World class historians
Many of the greatest WW2 experts in the world are interviewed at length, exclusively for WW2History.com.
Video

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Eastern
1941

A different kind of war
Hitler had ordered that the war in the Soviet Union would be a war of ‘annihilation’. What motivated that terrible demand, and what were the consequences of it?
Testimony

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4:47

Eastern
1944

German Soldier in Soviet Union
As a soldier with German Army Group Centre, he fought against the Red Army in the Summer of 1944.
Key Moment

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Holocaust
1943

Murder factory at Birkenau
A combined crematorium and gas chamber complex opened at Auschwitz/Birkenau. By the early summer of 1943 a total of four such buildings were operational. Auschwitz/Birkenau now had the capacity to kill around 150,000 people a month.

More information on Laurence Rees

Laurence Rees is an acclaimed historian and filmmaker who has specialised in writing books and making TV documentary series about the Second World War for thirty years. In 2006 he won the British Book Award for history book of the year for 'Auschwitz: the Nazis and the 'Final Solution''. His many television awards include a BAFTA, a Grierson Award, a Broadcasting Press Guild Award, a BANFF festival award, an International Documentary Award, a Broadcast Award and a George Foster Peabody Award.
Read Laurence Rees’ full biography
"Rees knows a vast amount about the Second World War and his judgments can seldom be faulted."
Sir Max Hastings, Sunday Times.

"Scholars across the world owe a considerable debt of gratitude to Laurence Rees for his immense and unique contribution to historical understanding."
From the citation awarding Laurence Rees an Honorary Doctorate, University of Sheffield

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