BBC History of World War II

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution - Orders and Initiatives (10x2)

Air date: Jan 18, 2005

Laurence Rees continues his documentary history, marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with an account of how the Nazis developed their "Final Solution". By 1942, Rudolf Hess had established the camp as a place to murder thousands of Jews, Slavs, & Roma Gypsies.