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Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning

Door Timothy Snyder

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#360423-VF46
Titel	Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning
Auteur	Snyder, Timothy
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : The Bodley Head
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	1847923631
ISBN13	9781847923639
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, b/w maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting	We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. 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 woul... (Lees verder)d like to think. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, and thus all the more terrifying.
Pagina's	462
Conditie	Goed — Name and date on half title.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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