In this episode of The Holocaust Podcast we follow Primo Levi's journey to 'The Bottom' in his harrowing account of his arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Monowitz labour camp. He calls this 'the demolition of a man.'

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The modern European antisemitism taken up by the Nazis in the 1920s and 30s was the product of pseudoscientific, sociological, and philosophical ideas stemming from imperialism and secularism - infused, of course, with centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and traditional Jew hatred.

An in-depth discussion on how the ugliest ideas of Christianity informed European attitudes towards the Jews and became the foundations of modern antisemitism.