Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder6/28/2023 Snyder a walking encyclopedia of arresting facts and conclusive figures. . . Snyder offers a powerful reminder that the true killing fields of the Holocaust were in German-occupied territories in the east. . . . At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.Īssiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.Īmericans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war.
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