Black Earth : The Holocaust as History and Warning

from Darcia

History, particularly as it is taught in our public schools, comes to us filtered down through the perspectives of those involved. Nations want to see themselves in the best light, and we, as citizens, want to accept that what we're taught is the unbiased truth. The whole truth; not just the bits...

from 2wonderY

This is the first presentation of Adolph Hitler's mindset that I've come across. Whoa! Quite a revelation. The litany of the holocaust itself is overpowering. Snyder does a credible job of explaining collaborators on the Eastern front and the progression of killing techniques and the broadening o...

from vlodko62

Yet another masterwork from historian Timothy Snyder, this one on perhaps the central evil of the Twentieth Century, the Holocaust. Together with Bloodlands, this tells the story of one of the darkest periods in history, the 1930s and 1940s. It's not only his command of the facts, but also his im...

from rivkat

This is a book about the idea of the Holocaust more than its mechanics, though it emphasizes again and again that those who killed Jews also killed non-Jews and vice versa, and that the killers were never willing to kill Jews but not non-Jews, though they did sometimes save specific people. I was...

from knittingmomof3

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder is a well researched, expertly written book on the Holocaust and one that should be read by everyone, for without the full knowledge of history, it will, in often unexpected times and places, repeat itself, however not exactly in...