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.

Recent articles by Laurence Rees

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

Second World War

Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Second World War

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”

German prisoners of war

Second World War

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

A Second World War memorial monument depicting Soviet soldiers

Second World War

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)

Second World War

The dark charisma of Adolf Hitler