Treblinka
by Jean-Francois Steiner

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Book Review: A Must-Read on the Shoah
Summary: 5 Stars

Instead, I want to emphasize what makes this particular book important. One of the earlier reviewers pointed out how this book explained the history, the mentality of the European Jewry, and why the Nazis were able to put them into camps relatively easily. The second aspect of this book that is vital to understanding the holocaust is that Steiner also shows how the death camps were developed: How the Germans resolved the technical and psychological problems connected with mass extermination. For example, an early version of the gas chamber involved trucks, with the exhaust directed to a contained hold. A driver just had to drive to a set destination, and on arrival, all the people in the back would be dead. This "clever" plan failed, because the drivers couldn't stand what they were doing: they all drove too fast, and the prisoners did not have time to suffocate. But from that first concept, the idea of the death chamber came to be.

For people today, who weren't there, you need to read this book to appreciate what was involved in this unprecedented mass destruction, all with 1930s technology.

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