Zwischen Stalins Russland und Hitlers Deutschland, in der Mitte Europas, starben in den Jahren von 1933 bis 1944 vierzehn Millionen Menschen, fast alle Zivilisten. Hier, in den heutigen Staaten Ukraine, Weißrussland, Polen und an der Ostseeküste, trafen die Kräfte der Roten Armee und der Wehrmacht aufeinander. In diesen Ländern lebten die meisten Juden, die Interessen Stalins und Hitlers überlappten, sowohl NKWD als auch SS schlugen zu.

Informationen zum Autor Timothy Snyder has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge towards counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians and populists. After a quarter century at Yale, he now teaches history at the Munk School in the University of Toronto and his books, which have been published in over forty languages, include Bloodlands , Black Earth , On Tyranny , Road to Unfreedom , Our Malady and On Freedom . His work has inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, sculptures, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play and an opera, and he has appeared in over fifty films and documentaries. Klappentext Subtitled, "Europe Between Hitler & Stalin". Looks at how, between them, Hitler and Stalin murdered 14 million people in the 'bloodlands' between Berlin and Moscow. This area is now Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Western Russia. A brilliantly researched and profoundly humane book about the greatest tragedy in European history. Zusammenfassung Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. Inhaltsverzeichnis i: Preface: EuropeINTRODUCTION: HITLER AND STALIN1: THE SOVIET FAMINES2: CLASS TERROR3: NATIONAL TERROR4: MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP EUROPE5: THE ECONOMICS OF APOCALYPSE6: FINAL SOLUTION7: HOLOCAUST AND REVENGE8: THE NAZI DEATH FACTORIES9: RESISTANCE AND INCINERATION10: ETHNIC CLEANSINGS11: STALINIST ANTI-SEMITISMCONCLUSION: HUMANITYii: Numbers and Termsiii: Abstractiv: Acknowledgmentsv: Bibliographyvi: Notesvii: Index

Vorwort
A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians were murdered during the years 1933-1944

Autorentext
Timothy Snyder has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge towards counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians and populists. After a quarter century at Yale, he now teaches history at the Munk School in the University of Toronto and his books, which have been published in over forty languages, include Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, Road to Unfreedom, Our Malady and On Freedom. His work has inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, sculptures, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play and an opera, and he has appeared in over fifty films and documentaries.

Klappentext

Subtitled, "Europe Between Hitler & Stalin". Looks at how, between them, Hitler and Stalin murdered 14 million people in the 'bloodlands' between Berlin and Moscow. This area is now Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Western Russia. A brilliantly researched and profoundly humane book about the greatest tragedy in European history.

Zusammenfassung
Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia.

Inhalt

• i: Preface: EuropeINTRODUCTION: HITLER AND STALIN1: THE SOVIET FAMINES2: CLASS TERROR3: NATIONAL TERROR4: MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP EUROPE5: THE ECONOMICS OF APOCALYPSE6: FINAL SOLUTION7: HOLOCAUST AND REVENGE8: THE NAZI DEATH FACTORIES9: RESISTANCE AND INCINERATION10: ETHNIC CLEANSINGS11: STALINIST ANTI-SEMITISMCONCLUSION: HUMANITY

• ii: Numbers and Terms

• iii: Abstract

• iv: Acknowledgments

• v: Bibliography

• vi: Notes

• vii: Index