The scholorship of this book is superb. Gives the reader a feeling for these awful places. You get to meet the human monsters who put these horrible places together and operated them. Just as you get to meet the innocent human beings who were slaughtered there.

It is a cold expression of human evil in its coldest unemotional form.

The cold facts are depressing. And an appetite killer for the unnitiated. Like all material on the Holocost, there is only depression from what is here.

I only wish the death camp of Chlemno had been included in this work, for scholarly reasons. I know that Chelmno, the first of the death camps, used gas vans, and there are a fed other differences. But it would save the reader one less visit to hell to study.