Timothy Snyder, “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” (Basic Books, 2011)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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The Overwhelming Image of the Holocaust
The Holocaust began with an anti-Semitic regime, Nazi Germany, invading the Soviet Union. The killing then spreads not from West to East, but from East to West in 1942 as Jews of Poland who had already been concentrated are then killed. For Jews in the Holocaust as a whole, death was the overwhelming reality and people who died very rarely had the ability to write about it before their death. So we have an image of deprivation of rights concentration and then finally death which is theorized - that's fundamentally wrong.
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