Black Earth By: Timothy Snyder

If you are a history enthusiast this book is for you. I suggest that you borrow it from your local library, a friend, or go purchase it.

Timothy Snyder’s BLACK EARTH offers a distinctive view of (debatably) history’s greatest evil by focusing on the elements that enabled such “uncomplicated” mass-killing
The main dispute of Snyder’s book is that the Holocaust was made possible by the annihilation of the identity of the state in various countries. While it wouldn’t have been imaginable without Hitler’s murderous racial beliefs, it would have been far more challenging to instrument had not the right political surroundings existed in the various countries which the Nazis captured. Where the state retained its prewar political, governmental and legal machinery far fewer Jews were killed; where it did not Jews saw almost complete annihilation of their communities. And it is this stress on the state as the enabler or disabler of the Holocaust that leads Snyder to see both alarming involvement and confidence in human nature. This is because the state is ours; it is not foreign. We own state deserting us is far unfavorable that any kind of foreign assault.
The key role that the protection or annihilation of the state played in saving the lives of Jews is deceptive in the fact that the huge majority of Jews – including German Jews - were killed by the Nazis in stateless regions. These regions were either actively created by them or already existed in Eastern European nations because of preceding Soviet occupation. Where the Soviets had already caused annihilation of the state the Nazis found a practicable population that was more willing to aid them in classifying, exiling and murdering Jews. This non-Jewish population was driven in many cases by simple greed or a desire to return to a more comfortable way of life by intruding on Jewish assets or Jewish property, and they could act out their grubby desires exactly because no state existed to interfere. The elimination of the Jews removed struggle and made it suitable for them to climb a social and economic ladder that was formerly unapproachable to them. Bitterness against the Soviet Union further drove their involvement.
This book is an eye opener to our present lives. I believe that with the Donald Trump as president we will see a new Hitler emerge; this Hitler will not just annihilate the Jews, Poles, German Jews but the entire human race. “This book was sent to me by Blogging For Books . “