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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
5.0
Is it just me or does it seem very strange that the Germans in WW II had an Operation Easter Bunny, which dealt with killing? My mind is blown and a more corherent review might come later.
This books is one of the those books that you like but don't like reading. It is about the area of Poland and other later parts of Eastern Europe during WW II and afterwards. Snyder focuses on Poland and the Urakine for the most part. He examines the high rate of death and the reasons behind it, how Stalin and Hitler fed off of each other in a way as well as the differences in the USSR and Nazi killing machines.
As to why you should read this and seek understanding, it is perhaps best said by Snyder himself in the close of his book, "To yield to this temptation, to find other people to be inhuman, is to take a step toward, not away from, the Nazi position. To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history".
This books is one of the those books that you like but don't like reading. It is about the area of Poland and other later parts of Eastern Europe during WW II and afterwards. Snyder focuses on Poland and the Urakine for the most part. He examines the high rate of death and the reasons behind it, how Stalin and Hitler fed off of each other in a way as well as the differences in the USSR and Nazi killing machines.
As to why you should read this and seek understanding, it is perhaps best said by Snyder himself in the close of his book, "To yield to this temptation, to find other people to be inhuman, is to take a step toward, not away from, the Nazi position. To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history".