(5) A brief overview of the Soviet purges and the Nazi Holocaust process.

Read "Bloodland Hitler and Stalin: The Truth about the Holocaust" for a quick overview of the Nazi Holocaust process⑸.

Again, this time by Timothy Snyder.Bloodland: The Truth About Hitler and Stalin and the Holocaust.We will read the

The book reveals how Stalin and the Nazis carried out their mass killings in the context of the world situation.

Up to our last article, we talked about mass murder in the Soviet Union.

The book first tells of the Great Purge by Stalin in the Soviet Union, followed by the Nazi Holocaust.

I would really like to share how the Nazis went toward the Holocaust in this article, but it would be too long and complicated to quote, so I can only say, "Please read this book.

If I quote only a part of it here, it would be difficult to understand, so I decided that it would not be suitable to introduce the parts I was interested in as I have done so far.

Therefore, I will not quote for a while from the previous introduction. However, just because I don't cite them doesn't mean that there are no important passages in the book.

The Flow of Genocide in the Bloodlands (Bloodbath)

Now, in this article, I will present the "abstract" written by the author at the end of this book.

This is more than a good summary of the overall flow of the project, so I will look at that in this article. We will not look at the individual sections of the text, but you can get a general idea of the flow by looking at the abstract here. So, let's get started.

The Great Purges by Stalin before World War II

The carnage in the Bloodshed took five forms. First, Stalin initiated "modernization" by promoting colonization within the Soviet Union. He created a system of forced labor camps called gulags, collectivized agriculture, and built factories, mining facilities, and canals. When severe food shortages began as a result of the collectivization of agriculture, the government blamed this on certain groups of people, mainly Ukrainians. In the early 1930s, more than 500,000 people died of starvation in the Soviet Union, mainly in Ukraine. It was the collectivization of agriculture that caused the famine, but it was government policy that caused the starvation.

Eventually, the Soviet Union "retreated" into terror [referring to the end of the revolution and the shift to a policy of stability]. During the Great Terror of 1937-38, the peasants, victims of collectivization, were positioned as the greatest threat to the Soviet Union, and those who survived the famine and the Gulag were shot. At the same time, the Soviet leadership designated certain ethnic minority groups as enemies. It is recorded that nearly 700,000 people were executed by terror, although the actual number may have been a little higher. Most of these people were agricultural workers and Soviet Poles.

Chikuma Shobo, "Bloodland Hitler and Stalin: The Truth of the Massacre," by Timothy Snyder, translated by Yukiko Fuse, p. 289 in the second volume.290

This is the content of the previous articles.

Impact of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland and implemented an "anti-enlightenment" policy. Drawing similar conclusions from their mutually divergent ideologies, the Germans and Soviets killed approximately 900,000 Polish citizens between 1939 and 1941. Most of them were educated people representing European cultures who seemed capable of organizing a resistance movement.

In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union executed 11,892 Polish officers and others in Katyn and four other locations. This was very similar to the killing campaign that Germany was pursuing at the time. During this period, Germany and the Soviet Union also carried out the forced emigration of 1,000,000 Poles, further expanding the concentration camp system. The Germans locked all Polish Jews in ghettos with the intention of forcibly transferring them. The ghettos were turned into temporary forced labor camps, where tens of thousands of Jews died of starvation and disease.
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Chikuma Shobo, "Bloodland Hitler and Stalin: The Truth about the Massacre" by Timothy Snyder, translated by Yukiko Fuse, Vol. 2, P290

In my middle school history class, I learned that World War II began in 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

It is true that this is not a mistake. However, when looking at the relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union, it is more important to note that the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was signed in that year than the fact that the invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World War II.

In fact, the treaty was not merely an agreement not to invade each other's territory, but it had a hidden and even more important purpose.

That was the arrangement for Poland's partition control.

The treaty determined that the Nazis would take control of western Poland and the Soviet Union would take control of the eastern part of the country under their rule.

Based on these secret agreements between Germany and the Soviet Union, the Nazis invaded Poland.

In other words, World War II is attributed to the Nazi invasion of Poland, but the Soviet Union was actually invading Poland at the same time. This was not a good story for the Soviet Union, which later fought on the side of the Allies. The mass murder in Bradland was caused by the relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union.

Earlier article on the Kachin Forest case, which is also mentioned in the quote above.V. Zaslavsky, "The Kachin Forest: The Elimination of the Polish Leadership Class" - The genocide that the Soviet Union covered up.Please also refer to the introduction in the following section.

In 1941, Nazi Germany breaks the treaty and invades the Soviet Union. The war between Germany and the Soviet Union begins. Hitler's Dream

After Germany broke its alliance and invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the two countries, now enemies, killed civilians in an "act of complicity between the belligerents. In German-occupied Soviet Belarus, the Soviet Union supported partisan activities, and Germany responded by killing over 300,000 people. These mass killings are not retaliation by any stretch of the imagination.

Finally, the Germans began shooting Belarusian women and children as nuisances and capturing men as slave laborers. In Warsaw, Soviet troops initially supported the Polish uprising, but decided to stay out of it. The Germans killed over 100,000 Poles and destroyed the city of Warsaw.

Hitler dreamed of colonizing the Soviet Union and Poland and then demodernizing them. This would have cost tens of millions of lives. The Nazi leadership wanted to drastically reduce the population of the eastern border region and deindustrialize it, turning it into an agricultural area to be settled by the dominant ethnic group, the Germans.

This goal had four stages. The first was to achieve a "blitzkrieg victory" in the summer of 1941 and to dismantle the Soviet Union, as it had done with Poland two years earlier. If successful, Germany would have complete control over Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, western Russia, and the Caucasus.

In the second phase, the "starvation program" would be implemented, and approximately 300,000,000 inhabitants of these areas would starve to death during the winter of 1941-42. The food would be sent to Germany and western Europe.

In the third phase, Soviet Jews who survived the Soviet starvation, Polish Jews, and Jews under German rule will be excluded from Europe through the "Final Solution".

In the fourth phase, within a few years of victory, the surviving population would be forcibly relocated, murdered, enslaved, or assimilated in accordance with the "Comprehensive Plan for the East," and German settlers would be resettled in Eastern Europe. The place where other peoples died was to become Germany's sphere of survival.
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Chikuma Shobo, "Bloodland Hitler and Stalin: The Truth about the Massacre" by Timothy Snyder, translated by Yukiko Fuse, Vol. 2, P290-291

Hitler thought that if he hit the Soviet Union, it would collapse in a flash and the war would be over. After the war was over, he planned to starve to death more than 30 million people and even colonize the country. I shudder to think what would have happened if this had been carried out...

Hitler's Miscalculations. Germany's struggle and Russia's counterattack. Revision of the extermination plan.

When it became clear that the Soviets had not fallen and that a blitz victory was unlikely, Hitler and the German leadership modified the three remaining plans to fit this new phase, killing approximately one million fewer people than originally envisioned.

It abandoned the original implementation of the "starvation program" and targeted only those areas under Germany's complete control. As a result, 1 million people were deliberately starved to death in besieged Leningrad, and more than 300,000 Soviet prisoners of war died of starvation and neglect.

The war continued, and soon Germany was forcing most of its prisoners of war into forced labor instead of starving them to death. The grand colonial vision, the "Comprehensive Plan for the East," could not be implemented without an all-out victory, but the day of such a victory was not likely to come.

The plan was tried in several areas of occupied Poland, where Poles were forcibly relocated to build German-only colonies. The underlying concept can be clearly seen in Germany's decision to destroy the city of Warsaw following the Warsaw Uprising in the summer of 1944. Whether it was the "Hunger Plan" or the "Comprehensive Plan for the East," the scale of mass murder needed to be reduced and slowed down. The overall goal of colonization was never abandoned.
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Chikuma Shobo, "Bloodland Hitler and Stalin: The Truth about the Massacre" by Timothy Snyder, translated by Yukiko Fuse, Vol. 2, P291-292

Hitler planned to defeat the Soviet Union once and for all before winter set in.

Why until winter?

This was because of the presence of Russia's fearsome Winter General.

The cold temperatures can reach minus 40 degrees Celsius, there are blizzards, and the roads are muddy like a bottomless swamp, making it difficult to march.

In 1812, the invincible Napoleon invaded Moscow with an army of more than 600,000 men, but was utterly defeated by General Winter.

Hitler, of course, is aware of Napoleon's defeat. No, he is rather too aware of it. That is why he was determined to achieve a blitzkrieg victory before winter.

However, Hitler's outlook was clearly revealed to be naive. The winter he had feared arrived, with a succession of reckless maneuvers and errors in judgment. It may be said that Hitler's defeat had become quite certain when he failed to defeat the Soviet Union by this time.

For more on Napoleon's expedition to Moscow and the siege of Leningrad in the quote above, see the following article.

Mass murder as the "final solution" to the Jewish problem - extermination camps at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bełżec, etc.

In contrast, the "Final Solution" was carried out as thoroughly as possible. Originally intended to be implemented after the war, when it became clear in late 1941 that the war was not going according to plan, Hitler made it clear that he wanted the Final Solution to begin immediately.

By that time, the final solution of forced emigration in four different ways had already been proposed and proved to be unworkable. The invasion of the Soviet Union and its failure showed how the Jews could be eliminated from Europe. That method was mass murder.

Special Action Units of the SS, originally tasked with eliminating political opponents, were used to shoot Jews. And a police battalion of the German Order Police, initially tasked with patrolling the occupied Soviet Union, was used in the mass murder campaign. By the time Hitler announced his intention to exterminate all Jews under German rule in December 1941, new technologies for mass murder were already in the practical stage.

Asphyxiation by carbon monoxide was first used in "euthanasia" programs, applied to gas vehicles in the occupied Soviet Union, and eventually used in gassing facilities built in occupied Poland. When death factories were added to the forced labor camps at Auschwitz, hydrogen cyanide was used instead of carbon monoxide.

The Jews of occupied Poland were already being herded into ghettos with the intention of being forcibly emigrated, but instead of emigrating, they were sent to Bełżec, Sobibul, Hełmno, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Maidanek to be gassed to death.
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Chikuma Shobo, "Bloodland Hitler and Stalin: The Truth about the Massacre" by Timothy Snyder, translated by Yukiko Fuse, Vol. 2, P292

The mass murder of Jews was not planned from the beginning, but as the war with the Soviet Union worsened and things did not go according to the original plan, the author says, it was decided to create "extermination camps where mass murder could be carried out efficiently" in order to overcome the situation.

Thus, the Nazi Holocaust was not planned from the beginning, but its content was greatly influenced by the course of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union.

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