After reading Laurence Rees’s recently published book, The Holocaust: A New History, certain thoughts come to mind:
We don’t learn anything new about the facts of the Holocaust here, though we do read new eye-witness accounts by people whom Rees has interviewed during 25 years of producing many TV documentaries about the Nazis and WW II. Personal stories are always worth recording, especially when they relate to a true historical event of almost unimaginable horror.
It is chastening to be reminded that in Germany’s secret euthanasia programme, known as “T-4”, which was directed against the elderly, the handicapped and the sick and during which many thousands of victims were gassed, starved to death or given lethal injections, that “No doctor was compelled to participate in this project...but the majority who were asked went along with the scheme...”
