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Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

(2) The Nazis and the Soviet Union, and the Covered-Up Crime Scene - History can only be grasped from a variety of perspectives.

Looking only at the history of one country does not give us a complete picture of the events that took place there.

This is a very important point. The author looks at the individual events of this period from many different angles. Instead of looking at historical events as dots, he looks at them as planes, that is, the complex world situation of the time.

While there are many works that study the Holocaust, few books discuss it from multiple perspectives in the context of the process of the struggle for hegemony with the Soviet Union and international affairs.

No matter how much knowledge you have about a single thing, that alone is not enough to understand history.

This is true not only for the genocide of Stalin and Hitler, but also for history, ideology, culture, religion, and everything else.

I think this point made by the author is a very important one.
Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

Timothy Snyder, "Bloodland: The Truth About Hitler and Stalin's Massacre" - A shocking book recommended to understand the reality of the German-Soviet war!

Why did Stalin starve or shoot his own people to death in large numbers? It was a great mystery to me why he was able to kill people in such a brutal way that he did not consider them human, even though they were the same Soviets.

The book "Bloodland: The Truth about Hitler and Stalin's Genocide" was the best answer to that question.

There are so many shocking things in this book that the translator would like to say that it is hard to read. But that is why I think it is necessary to read this book to learn about history.
Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

C. Angrao, "The Nazi Intellectual Corps" - A theory that affirms the genocide: Why were highly educated intellectuals so important to the Nazis?

This book focused on the young intellectuals who went on to commit genocide. We will take a close look at how they carried out the Holocaust and how they justified it. What struck me about the book was how traumatized Germany was by World War I before the war. It was very interesting to see how those fears then manifested themselves as incredible aggression.
Stalin and Hitler's genocide and holocaust

Frankl's "Night and Fog" Synopsis and Comments - A masterpiece that questions what it means to live! And a connection to Dostoevsky.

The work is the psychologist Frankl's account of his experiences at Auschwitz and the Dachau camp in Munich.

Whereas Vasily Grossman's "The Hell of Treblinka Camp," which I mentioned in my previous article, described the horrors of the extermination camps, "Night and Fog" tells the story of how people survived in the extreme conditions of concentration camps and the human analysis that was done there.

This book tells the story of how it is possible to survive as a human being in desperate circumstances. It is a book that gives great strength not only to those in the extreme conditions of the camps, but also to those of us who live in the present.

I hope this book will spread to more and more people.
German-Soviet War: The Soviet Union and the Nazis' War of Extermination

Vasily Grossman's "Life and Destiny" Synopsis and Comments - A masterpiece of Russian literature about the fate of those who lived through the war between Germany and the Soviet Union!

Life and Destiny is Grossman's deadly indictment.

In the Soviet Union, criticism of the regime is the most taboo of taboos. One must be prepared to be sent to a concentration camp or even executed. Grossman wrote this work, but it was raided by the KGB and confiscated. The authorities then declared it a dangerous book and decreed that it could not be published for the next two to three hundred years.

The sentence of "no publication for the next two to three hundred years" was tremendous. This shows how dangerous the novel was to the Soviet authorities. Conversely, it may be said that the novel reflected a truth that was inconvenient for the Soviet Union.

Wassily Grossman is not well known in Japan, which I believe is unfortunate. One of the greatest writers to convey the horrors of war and totalitarian oppression is this Wassily Grossman.
German-Soviet War: The Soviet Union and the Nazis' War of Extermination

Red Army Reporter Grothman: Notes on the Battle of Germany and the Soviet Union 1941-45" - The reality of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union as seen by a Jewish military reporter in the Soviet Union.

What struck me most about this book is the part that covers the site of the Nazi Holocaust. When we think of the Holocaust, we think of Auschwitz, but the book describes an extermination camp called Treblinka. More than 800,000 people were murdered there. The gruesome manner of the killings is chilling to read about. It is hard to imagine how shocked Grossman must have been when he was there.

His front line coverage of the unprecedented war of extermination in the history of the world, the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, is a must-see record. I highly recommend this book.
German-Soviet War: The Soviet Union and the Nazis' War of Extermination

V. Zaslavsky, "The Kachin Forest: The Elimination of the Polish Leadership Class" - The genocide that the Soviet Union covered up.

Although the Kachin Forest Incident is less well known in Japan than the Auschwitz Holocaust, I found this incident to be a very important event in terms of war and historical issues.

Root out the country's leadership and intellectual class. I learned that this is the standard practice when it comes to violent control of a country. It is a very frightening book. I hope you will pick up a copy.
German-Soviet War: The Soviet Union and the Nazis' War of Extermination

Alexievich, "War has no woman's face" - Listening to the voices of women who experienced the war between Germany and the Soviet Union - a famous book that is now being made into a manga in Japan.

This book is the result of Alexievich's interviews with women who served in or suffered the ravages of the Russo-German War, and is a written record of those interviews. In the huge history of the Russo-German War, individual voices were drowned out, especially those of women. This was especially true for women. War belongs to men, so women should not speak out. Such an atmosphere existed in the country.

Alexievich breaks the unspoken taboo and rises to the occasion. Alexievich interviews each person about his or her life at that time, and extracts memories from the darkness of history.
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A. Beever, "The Fall of Berlin 1945" - A masterful book that clearly depicts the counterattack of the Soviet Union and the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The author, Antony Beever, is also the author of "The Fatal Siege of Stalingrad 1942-1943," which was featured in our previous article. His writing is superb in this work as well, and it is a gripping read. The book tells the story of the Soviet counterattack and the decisive collapse of the Nazi regime.

What were the acts of both the Nazi and Soviet armies in the extreme conditions of hell? What you will see in this book is so tragic. I think you will be shocked if you read it. I too was shocked by the sheer horror. You will feel the cruelty of war very keenly in this book. I highly recommend this work.
German-Soviet War: The Soviet Union and the Nazis' War of Extermination

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943" - A milestone in war non-fiction depicting one of the largest urban battles of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union.

The siege of Stalingrad was one of the largest battles that had a major impact on the outcome of the German-Soviet war.

The Battle of Moscow was a defensive battle in the suburbs, while the Battle of Leningrad was a siege. In contrast, this battle was characterized by a large-scale urban battle as well as the area surrounding Stalingrad. It was a battle in which the two sides hid from each other, deceived each other, and engaged in fierce fighting in a city in ruins from air strikes and artillery bombardment. The death toll in Stalingrad is said to have exceeded 800,000 on the Soviet side alone.

It was a book that shocked me with the sheer scale of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union.

This book is also highly recommended. It will give you an insight into the horror of urban warfare, in which deadly battles were fought to the death over positions only a few meters wide. I hope that you will pick up a copy of this book.