With Auschwitz initially built for an altogether different purpose than the gassing of the Jews. And the Nazis evolving their wider policy of killing in ways that defy the popular myth of the SS as ...

At Auschwitz, by mid January 1945, the Nazis knew it would be only a matter of days before the Red Army arrived. What had been the biggest concentration and death camp in the whole of the Nazi empire ...

This is the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world—Auschwitz. 1.1 million people died here. More than the total British and American losses in the whole of the Second World War.

Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz on the 27th of January 1945. Only a few thousand inmates awaited them. The vast majority of the prisoners had been marched away by the Nazis just days before, ...

Auschwitz occupies a chilling and disturbing place in the history of humankind. It began as a Nazi labor campt to terrorize the local Polish population and evolved intothe site of the largest mass ...

Even PBS seems a little sheepish on the "Why another Holocaust documentary?" front, based on the discussions conducted by Linda Ellerbee that bookend this six-hour project being presented on three ...

"Auschwitz did not start with gas chambers. Hatred does not happen overnight; it builds up slowly among people. It does so with words and thoughts, with small everyday acts, with prejudices. When we ...

In January and February 2005, Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State, a six-hour documentary television series, aired on U.S. public television and the BBC in Great Britain. The series chronologically ...

"Auschwitz did not start with gas chambers. Hatred does not happen overnight; it builds up slowly among people. It does so with words and thoughts, with small everyday acts, with prejudices. When we ...