LAURENCE REES: AUSCHWITZ [2005]

-Published by the BBC
-Rees 'Creative Director of History Programmes for BBC Television'
-Commissioning editor: Sally Potter/ Project editor: Martin Redfern/ Designer: Martin Hendry/ Picture researcher: Joanne King/ Production controller: Peter Hunt
Blurbs quote: Andrew Roberts/ Anthony Beevor/ David Cesarini/ Ian Kershaw/ Publishing Week/ Neal Ascherson/ David von Drehle/ Ian Thomson/ The Tribune & on the back cover: Boyd Tonkin/ Michael Burleigh/ Rafael Nunez Florencio/ Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

MY AMAZON REVIEW Aug 2011
An awful warning about state control of information, 23 Aug 2011
Rees, like all BBC apparatchiks, is somewhat of a mysterious figure. I'd guess his name is fake and he thinks he's a 'Jew'. His introduction states he spent 15 years 'writing books and making televison programmes about the Nazis.' (He did one on Japan, too), He is/was 'Creative Director of History Programmes for BBC Television' (his capitals). There's no description of what qualifications (if any) he has; possibly Media Studies? Nor of his language skills, interview techniques, forensic knowledge, methodology; probably because he has none. Unusually, for books at least, there are some background people listed: Commissioning editor: Sally Potter/ Project editor: Martin Redfern/ Designer: Martin Hendry/ Picture researcher: Joanne King/ Production controller: Peter Hunt, I won't bother to list the one or two sentence comments supporting the book. Connoisseurs of recycled trash might be amused by a dedication: 'In memory of 1.1 million men, women and children who died at Auschwitz.'

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