Philippe Sands

A singular horror

Laurence Rees makes the atrocity of the Holocaust more powerful than ever by anchoring it in human experience

issue 28 January 2017

Seventy years after the Nazi Holocaust, against the background of a rich and varied literature, Laurence Rees has achieved the unexpected: a magisterial book that consolidates what has come before and manages to offer fresh perspectives. With Brexit, Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen now centre stage, it also offers a timely reminder of the dangers that are unleashed when the path of demonisation and discrimination is embraced in the name of national well-being.

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