Black earth

the holocaust as history and warning

428 pages

English language

Published May 6, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-101-90345-2
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OCLC Number:
898228378

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"It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think." --publisher's description

"In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on untapped sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. By overlooking the …

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Subjects

  • Moral and ethical aspects
  • Genocide
  • Jews
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Causes
  • Rescue