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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Chapters: Laurence Rees, Alex Jones, Alan Ereira, Peter Woods, Gary O'Donoghue, Katty Kay, Sophie Long, Jo Coburn, Tim Willcox, Ellie Crisell, Mark Carruthers, John Barrett, Claire Summers, David Malone, Riz Lateef, Christa Ackroyd, Matt Barbet, Ben Silburn, Pete Clifton, Claire Marshall, Katya Adler, Waseem Mirza, Geoff Posner, Matt Cooke, Harry Gration, Guy Lynn, Sarah Lockett, Chris Lowe, Ben Slade, Kate Gerbeau, Richard Baker, Stuart Cosgrove, Miriam O'Reilly, Karin Giannone, Stephen Cole, Celina Hinchcliffe, Sue Thearle, Maya Even, John Edmunds, Martha Holmes, Justin Rowlatt, Aaron Heslehurst, Rajesh Mirchandani, Mike Embley, Robert Lee, David Robertson, Sarah Montague, Ruth Goodman, Detlef Siebert, Charles Nove, Matthew Amroliwala, James Dagwell, Babita Sharma, Sarah Falkland, Winifred Robinson, Pui Fan Lee, Suzanne Virdee, Kirsty Lang, Lucy Hockings, John Cole, Beverley Thompson, James Landale, Sarah Stirk, Geoff Clark, Ted Lowe, Robin Oakley, Alan Towers, Sally Magnusson, Valerie Sanderson, Nigel Paterson, Maxine Mawhinney, Jonah Fisher, Dougie Vipond, Annabel Tiffin, Anne Davies, Mary Rhodes, Amelia Reynolds, Dominic Cotton, Alastair Yates, Wendy Hurrell, Caroline van den Brul, Sue Beardsmore, Dominic Sutherland, Ian MacNaughton, Kevin Bakhurst, Adnan Nawaz, Clare Frisby, Andrew Harvey, Francine Stock, Tom Brook, Lizo Mzimba, Sally Nugent, Martin Henfield, Rebecca Pike, Amanda Parr, Denis Tuohy, John Trefor, Suzanne Charlton, Gordon Brewer, Viv Lumsden, Sean Fletcher, Maryam Moshiri, Adrian Finighan, Matthew Price, David Duffield, Simon Willis, Adam Fleming, Alan J. W. Bell, Denis Murray, Chris Eakin, Charlie Hanson, Mike Donkin, Sara Coburn, Sonja McLaughlan, Barry Cowan, Greg Childs, Paul Bradshaw, David Eades, Michael Wadding, Cyrus Andrews, Thalia Pellegrini, Tim Donovan, David Whiteley, James Coomarasamy, Alina Jenkins, Francis Collings, Juliet Dunlop, Penny Macmillan, Martin Hughes-Games, Rachel Schofield, Ian Masters, Rebecca John, James Robbins, Kylie Morris, Victoria Hollins, Damian Johnson, Matt Prodger, David Currie, Laurie Mayer, Peter Barron, Nima Abu-Wardeh, Tomos Dafydd, Alan Connor, Robert Hall, John Pienaar, Ben Geoghegan, Deborah Mackenzie, Cedric Messina, Sam Gunasekera, Rob Bonnet, Adam Clapham, Alan Mackay, Alastair Dickenson, Mark Clemmit, Armine Sandford, Tony Campion, Gemma Morris, Kevin Leonard. Excerpt: Laurence Rees (born 1957) is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war. Rees was educated at Solihull School and Oxford University, and began his career as an editor on the BBC series Timewatch. He wrote, directed and produced the 1997 series The Nazis: A Warning from History, the 2001 series Horror in the East, and the 2005 Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. He has won many awards for his television films, including a BAFTA, a Grierson Award, an International Documentary Award, a British Press Guild Award and a BANFF festival award. He also wrote, directed and produced the documentary, World War II Behind Closed Doors. He also wrote the companion books to his series The Nazis: A Warning from History, Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II, The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin and Auschwitz: A New History. In 2006 he won History Book of the Year at the British Book Awards for his book on Auschwitz making him the first per...