This book sets out to uncover some of the most important lessons to be learned from what really drove the Jewish holocaust to such cataclysmic murder rates. After researching aspects of the political circumstances immediately surrounding eastern Europe and Russia, and the social desires driving Hitler and his Nazi ideologies, the author reveals the truth about what can happen to citizens who live in areas where statehood has been demolished (due to war, occupation and so on), how all citizens are more vulnerable to being victims of mass genocide in holocaust proportions when the rule and protection of a state is lost or in great upheaval, much more so than citizens who dwell in a functioning state. Jews living in Germany, for example, which still existed as a state, were more likely to survive the holocaust than Jews living in European states that had been demolished by Russia or Germany, such as Poland and Ukraine.
About the Author
Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. Snyder is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement and a former contributing editor at The New Republic. He is a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, serves as the faculty advisor for the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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