Omer Bartov
Author of Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich
About the Author
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and German Studies at Brown University and has written on the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and modern genocide. His books include Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine show more (2007), Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (2003) and Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide and Modern Identity (2000). show less
Works by Omer Bartov
Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands (2012) 53 copies
The Eastern Front, 1941-45: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare (St Antony's Series) (1985) 43 copies
In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century (War and Genocide (Paper)) (2001) 12 copies
Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023) 6 copies
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(To summarize the "true" history - the towns were Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish. The inhabitants probably got along to some degree unless there were external destabilizing circumstances. These circumstances were common in the 19th and 20th centuries. So, when the Soviets came, the Ukrainian nationalists were tortured and killed; then the Nazis came and the Poles and Ukrainians helped them torture and kill the Jews; when the Jews were gone the Ukrainians tortured and killed the Poles; then the Soviets came back and the Ukrainians were tortured and killed again. Now they are free Ukrainians and they skip the parts where they don't look so good.)… (more)