Laurence Rees

Laurence Rees is a historian, author and documentary film-maker, whose series have included <em>The Nazis: A Warning from History</em>, <em>Auschwitz: The Nazis and  ‘The Final Solution’</em> and <em>Horror in the East</em>. 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.

The rise of the Nazis and the importance of heeding warnings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Holocaust | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The outbreak of war | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The rise of the Nazi party | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The road to power | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nazis in the 1930s | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WW2: The Big Questions, with Laurence Rees – episode 4

WW2: The big questions | Part 4, the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WW2 the big questions: final stages of the conflict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1The Holocaust with Laurence Rees – Beginnings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2The Holocaust with Laurence Rees – Radicalisation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 3The Holocaust with Laurence Rees – Mass extermination. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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”

A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler

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Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

German prisoners of war

What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Second World War memorial monument depicting Soviet soldiers

Q&AWhy did Britain and France not declare war on the Soviet Union when the Red Army marched on Poland in September 1939?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler