Heinz Jost (centre), commander of Einsatzgruppe A between March and September 1942, on trial at Nuremberg in 1948 (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
In his 2010 book “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” the American historian Timothy Snyder identified an area stretching from central Poland, through Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States to western Russia in which some 14 million people were murdered by the Nazi and Soviet regimes between 1933 and 1945. Most of the victims were Jews, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, Russians and Balts. This is the territory that Snyder calls the “bloodlands.”
“Auschwitz,” Snyder wrote in the introduction to that book, “is …read more
Source: Prospect
