THE HOLOCAUST: A New History
by Laurence Rees
Viking/Penguin, London Hardcover: 512 pages Price: AUD$55
Reviewed by Bill James
The Holocaust, the murder by Nazi Germany of six million Jews between 1933 and 1945, is history’s most intensively studied event. Rees describes it as “the most infamous crime in the history of the world”.
But for all its notoriety, there are still misconceptions and controversies surrou…