Historian Laurence Rees charts the devastating course of the Holocaust <\/p>
How did the Nazis\u2019 poisonous antisemitic rhetoric eventually culminate in the systematic mass-murder of millions?<\/p>\n
In the fourth episode of this five-part series tackling the big questions of the Second World War, historian Laurence Rees charts the course of the Holocaust \u2013 from its origins to its devastating conclusion.<\/p>\n
Watch the next episode now<\/a>, or go to the series homepage<\/a>. Finished all five episodes? Discover more of our masterclasses and video lectures<\/a>, including another from Laurence Rees devoted to the Holocaust. Laurence Rees\u2019 book Auschwitz: The Nazis and the \u2018Final Solution\u2019<\/em> won History Book of the Year at the British Book awards. His book The Holocaust: A New History<\/em> was a Sunday Times<\/em> Bestseller and described by the Telegraph as \u201cthe finest single volume account of the Holocaust ever written\u201d. Educated at Oxford University, he has been awarded two Honorary Doctorates for this work.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Historian Laurence Rees charts the devastating course of the Holocaust <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Historian Laurence Rees charts the devastating course of the Holocaust","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/24451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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