Auschwitz:1270 to the present

This history reveals how ordinary people transformed an unremarkable Polish town into the horrifying place where first Poles, then Soviet POWs, and finally over a million Jews and other non-Aryans were incarcerated and exterminated. Draws on recently discovered historical documents, never before published oral histories and interviews, as well as architectural plans and blueprints the Germans forgot to destroy, to reconstruct the troubled history of the town of Auschwitz.