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Why did Nazi Germany kill millions who did not conform to its ideas of racial-biological 'purity'?

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Descent into Genocide

Genocide Under the Nazis Timeline This unique timeline allows you to judge if you too would have accepted the drip-drip of events that led to murder on an unimaginable scale.

Interactive Map of Auschwitz The complex and revealing evolution of the place where one of the most terrible crimes in human history was carried out.

From Persecution to Genocide - The radicalisation of Nazi policy towards the Jews, by David Cesarani
The Nazi Racial State - How the Nazi state realised its theories of racial purity, by Peter Longerich
Child Survivors of the Holocaust - Children of the Kindertransport tell their stories

The Guilty

Who Were the Guilty?Relatively few of those involved in the genocides of World War Two ever faced justice, but the question of guilt remains. By Omer Bartov.

Rudolf Höss - Commandant of Auschwitz Inside the mind of the man who built and ran the most infamous murder site in history. By Laurence Rees.

Adolf Eichmann: The Mind of a War Criminal - Profile of the notorious Nazi bureaucrat, by David Cesarani
Austria and Nazism: Owning Up to the Past by Dr Robert Knight
The Vichy Policy on Jewish Deportation by Paul Webster
Is Forgiveness Possible? A Jewish Perspective by Rabbi Albert Friedlander

Debates

Denying the Holocaust How and why do certain individuals and groups dispute the reality of the Nazis' attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe? By Deborah Lipstadt

Historical Accuracy in Drama Documentaries Drama is a powerful tool in a history series, but factual accuracy is paramount. By Detlef Siebert.

Churchill and the Holocaust - What could he have done to stop it? By Sir Martin Gilbert

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