Black earth
Subtitle: the holocaust as history and warning
By: Timothy Snyder
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781101903452
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Genocide; Jews; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Causes; Rescue
Description: "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

"In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on untapped sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was -- and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-387, 391-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Hitler's world; title: Living space; title: Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow; title: The promise of Palestine; title: The state destroyers; title: Double occupation; title: The greater evil; title: Germans, Poles, Soviets, Jews; title: The Auschwitz paradox; title: Sovereignty and survival; title: The gray saviors; title: Partisans of God and man; title: The righteous few; title: Conclusion: our world.