WW2 People

|   1 September 2020

Hitler and Stalin

My latest book, Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War, will be published by Viking/Penguin in the UK on 29 October and in America by Public Affairs in November. I’ve been working on it for several years, so I’m especially grateful for the endorsements below from these distinguished historians. ‘Coming from one […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   27 June 2018

Who are you?

This is me, just over twenty years ago. And because I’m working with testimony from people who were also recalling events from twenty – or even more – years ago, I’ve started wondering the extent to which I am still the person in this photo. Demonstrably, I look older. Equally obviously, I can’t do some […]

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WW2 Reviews

|   28 January 2017

Reviews of ‘The Holocaust: A New History’

‘The amount of ground it covers in 500 pages is remarkable — from the antisemitism of popular German literature of the 19th century to Hitler’s suicide and the surrender of his regime. It’s excellently written and skilfully interweaves narrative history, sound interpretation and the recollections (through interviews, listed in the notes as “previously unpublished testimony”) […]

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WW2History.com News

|   21 October 2016

My new book

I’m really pleased to say that my new book – a history of the Holocaust that I have been working on for years – will be published on 26 January in the UK by Viking/Penguin. I’ve been meeting people who were involved with the Nazis – either as supporters or perpetrators – for 25 years […]

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WW2 People

|   23 February 2016

Dr Frank Stucke

Dr Stucke, who died yesterday. Frank Stucke, a brilliant German academic and journalist, and my colleague for many years, has just died. Frank was truly exceptional. He was one of the key reasons that so many of the television series that I wrote and produced featured such memorable German interviewees. He was not the only […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   2 December 2015

Faith and the Nazis

What did these German soldiers believe? There is a lot in the news at the minute about the power of religious faith as a motivational factor. But we mustn’t forget that a study of Nazism teaches us that it is perfectly possible to have fanatical faith without believing in a traditional religion at all. Hitler, […]

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WW2 Reviews

|   21 May 2015

Ardennes 1944

Antony Beevor’s new book ‘Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble’ is published today. The appearance of a new book by the master of military history is always special, and this new work does not disappoint. The book displays all of the skills as a historian that have justifiably made Beevor famous. He combines a meticulous attention […]

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WW2 Controversies

|   23 April 2015

The Oskar Groening I met

Oskar Groening I met Oskar Groening, the former SS soldier from Auschwitz whose trial started this week, more than 10 years ago. We were filming him for a BBC TV series I wrote and produced called ‘Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution”. The interview he gave us is of real historical importance, since he […]

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WW2History.com News

|   9 March 2015

Podcast

The Holocaust Educational Trust have just put online a podcast I recorded with their head of education, Alex Maws. It’s about my views on the nature of perpetrators and you can listen to it here: HET Podcast

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WW2 Anniversary, WW2 Relevance

|   25 January 2015

Advance press for ‘Touched by Auschwitz’

‘Touched by Auschwitz’ transmits on BBC2 at 9pm on Tuesday 27 January ‘This immensely powerful programme’ The Times ‘Superb’ The Daily Telegraph ‘Laurence Rees’s film tracks down six survivors of the camp in five countries to ask the complex questions of how a person endures the unendurable and then explains the inexplicable’ The Guardian ‘Hard […]

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