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My latest book - Laurence Rees - The Nazis, a warning from history.

...Described as 'one of the greatest documentary series of all times' 'The Nazis - A Warning from History' won a host of awards, including a Bafta and an International Documentary Award. The accompanying book broke new ground in our understanding of the Nazi regime and was praised for 'getting to the heart of the most troubling and elusive questions of Germany before and during World War Two'. The dramatic and incredible story that unfolds in these pages, once read, is not easily forgetten.

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A book of horror, mostly since you get to realize that many of the people who did the most horrible things during WW2 where just ordinary people in the beginning, just like you and me, and when the war was over, they returned to their ordinary lives. Makes you think...could I have done the same thing? And also, even though Hitler himself was not a highly educated man, many of the leading Nazis where...and still...