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Laurence Rees

Historian, author and documentary film-maker

Laurence Rees is a historian, author and documentary film-maker, whose series have included The Nazis: A Warning from History, Auschwitz: The Nazis and 
‘The Final Solution’ and Horror in the East. He is a former Head of BBC TV History, and has won many awards for his work, including a British Book Award, a BAFTA and two Emmys.

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Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
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Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

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Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

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What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

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Q&A Why did Britain and France not declare war on the Soviet Union when the Red Army marched on Poland in September 1939?

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler sits at a table facing a group of young uniformed National Socialists crowded into a small room in the 'Braune Haus' or Brown House, Munich, Germany, c1935. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler

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