Stepping inside evil

Sir Simon Schama comes face-to-face with the terrifying realities of the Holocaust...

- HANNAH DAVIES

SIMON SCHAMA: THE ROAD TO AUSCHWITZ

Monday, 9pm, BBC2 Factual

Historian Sir Simon Schama explores how Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau only came about after years of previous horror, with massacres taking place across Europe before the gas chambers were even built.

He starts his sobering journey in Kaunas, Lithuania, the home of his mother's family, where he learns how the murder of its Jewish population began shortly after the Germans invaded in 1941.