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BLACK EARTH - TIMOTHY SNYDER KARTONIERT (TB)

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 would 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.

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