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Black Earth

The Holocaust as history and warning

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We have come to believe that the Holocaust was the industrial-style killing of millions of Jews in gas chambers, organised by faceless German bureaucrats working for a totalitarian state. In fact, by the time the first gas chambers were operational in occupied Poland, the vast majority of European Jews were already dead: they had been shot, face to face, over pits in forests and ravines. They had been murdered in lawless killing zones, on the fertile black earth of eastern Europe that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. Today most of us also believe that the Holocaust was a unique event which is unlikely to be repeated. But as Timothy Snyder shows in this authoritative and challenging study, some of our own ideas and beliefs are surprisingly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. We are in danger not to heed that important warning from history. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when between them the Nazis and the Soviets murdered 14 million people. Black Earth is about why it happened.

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Black Earth, Timothy Snyder

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Sottotitolo
The Holocaust as history and warning
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2015
Formato
In brossura
ISBN10
1847923631
ISBN13
9781847923639
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Prima pubblicazione
2015
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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We have come to believe that the Holocaust was the industrial-style killing of millions of Jews in gas chambers, organised by faceless German bureaucrats working for a totalitarian state. In fact, by the time the first gas chambers were operational in occupied Poland, the vast majority of European Jews were already dead: they had been shot, face to face, over pits in forests and ravines. They had been murdered in lawless killing zones, on the fertile black earth of eastern Europe that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. Today most of us also believe that the Holocaust was a unique event which is unlikely to be repeated. But as Timothy Snyder shows in this authoritative and challenging study, some of our own ideas and beliefs are surprisingly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. We are in danger not to heed that important warning from history. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when between them the Nazis and the Soviets murdered 14 million people. Black Earth is about why it happened.