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Loading... Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2010)by Timothy Snyder
This book should be required reading in all History classes. If you are a follower of this WWII read this book. This is a very good book I learned a lot more about what happened on the eastern front. (  ) Philip100 | Apr 22, 2013 |  This is an outstanding work of history that examines the deliberate mass-killing campaigns in eastern Europe (focused primarily on Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine) organized by Stalin and Hitler in the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II Europe, during the war and several post-war years. A dense, thorough, and most impressive work of scholarship, and an important contribution to Holocaust and genocide studies. (  ) Sullywriter | Apr 3, 2013 | According to this article, "the best introduction to the atrocities of World War II." Whee! The article is actually about this book that analyzes comments made by "ordinary" German POWs about their roles in those atrocities, and that sounds interesting too. "The disturbing truth is that, comparable to what researchers have seen in other wars, the soldiers didn't require a gradual hardening to violence to be able to engage in murder. Most humans, Neitzel and Welzer suggest, are capable of brutality: it's just a question of what the social setting they are put in encourages." That's a theory I've been really interested in this year. AlCracka | Apr 2, 2013 | על הרצח השיטתי של 14 מיליון איש על ידי היטלר וסטלין באזור שבין פולניה לרוסיה בשנות השלושים והארבעים. ספר חשוב, מזעזע, ומלא עניין. מאכזב קצת בשיפוט המוסרי שלו. ( ) amoskovacs | Apr 1, 2013 | The author explains how the regimes of Hitler and Stalin murdered of millions of civilians. The book starts off with the famines in Russia, and then moves to the bombing of Poland, then stalls at Holocaust, and ends with Russian ethnic cleansing. Readers will be familiar with the atrocities of Hitler, but the actions of Stalin might be new to general readers. There has been controversy surrounding the book. Jewish critics claim the author equates Stalin with the Hitler’s and ends up downplaying the Nazi genocide of the Jews. This is simply not true and somewhat ridiculous. We should not subsidize the crimes of Stalin, who technically killed more, because his motives "appear" to be less benign. Both murdered millions and their crimes should never be forgotten. ( ) moonbutterfly | Mar 31, 2013 |
 Snyder’s ambition is to persuade the West—and the rest of the world—to see the war in a broader perspective. He does so by disputing popular assumptions about victims, death tolls, and killing methods—of which more in a moment—but above all about dates and geography. The title of this book, Bloodlands, is not a metaphor. Snyder’s “bloodlands,” which others have called “borderlands,” run from Poznan in the West to Smolensk in the East, encompassing modern Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus, and the edge of western Russia (see map on page 10). This is the region that experienced not one but two—and sometimes three—wartime occupations. This is also the region that suffered the most casualties and endured the worst physical destruction. More to the point, this is the region that experienced the worst of both Stalin’s and Hitler’s ideological madness.  Mr Snyder’s book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe’s modern history.
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