• 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?
    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?
    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
  • How best can we compare Hitler and Stalin?
    Feb 24 2021

    Award winning historian, Laurence Rees, answers the key question - How best can we compare Hitler and Stalin. Laurence's latest book 'Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War' has recently been published in the UK and in America. It was described as 'always compelling' by the Times, 'an impressive parallel study' by the Telegraph, and the Times Literary Supplement concluded that 'as this book brilliantly shows, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were blood brothers.'

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    34 mins
  • Why did Hitler invade Stalin's Soviet Union?
    Feb 24 2021

    Award winning historian, Laurence Rees, answers the key question - Why did Hitler invade Stalin's Soviet Union? And in the process reveals how Stalin could have lost this war, if he hadn't made two crucial decisions.

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    27 mins
  • Why did World War Two happen?
    Feb 24 2021

    Award winning historian, Laurence Rees, answers the key question - Why did WW2 happen? And in the process reveals why Hitler ended up fighting what was, for him, in many ways the wrong war. 

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    26 mins