Treblinka

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Summary: Good, but flawed book
Review: This book does a wonderful job of detailing what life may have been like for people inside Treblinka and in that respect belongs on everyone's shelf along with classic Holocaust books like Primo Livi's Survival in Auschwitz. However, Steiner's book does have one fatal flaw for serious students of history looking for "facts." Much of this book is in fact, fiction.

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Summary: One of the best books on the Holocaust
Review: This is without a doubt one of the better books about the death camps. You will become intimately acquainted with Treblinka and the Nazis who ran it. Steiner's book is well-written and does justice to the horror.

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Summary: Just the fiction, m'am... Just the fiction
Review: To put it bluntly, this book is a hoax.
The book itself claims to come "...as close to the facts as we are likely to come" (in the Introduction). Nothing could be farther away from the truth.
Magazines and scholars (french and international) have denounced the book and the author plenty of times (Revue d'histoire de la Shoah, Gitta Sereny and others). Check out Gitta Sereny's brilliant "Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder" if you want facts