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Book

Black earth : the holocaust as history and warning

Call Number

  • 940.5318 S6757 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Crown, Tim Duggan Books, 2015.

Physical Description

462 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Summary

"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

Contents

  • Introduction: Hitler's world
  • Living space
  • Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow
  • The promise of Palestine
  • The state destroyers
  • Double occupation
  • The greater evil
  • Germans, Poles, Soviets, Jews
  • The Auschwitz paradox
  • Soverignty and survival
  • The gray saviors
  • Partisans of God and man
  • The righteous few
  • Conclusion: our world.

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