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With this epic record of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the fantastic atrocity of the 20th century and reveals the risks that we face in the 21st. Predicated on new resources from Eastern European countries and neglected testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black colored Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as a meeting that is still near to us, more comprehensible than we wish to think and therefore all the more terrifying. The Holocaust started in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's head, with the idea that the removal of Jews would regain balance to the earth and invite Germans to earn the resources they frantically needed. Such a worldview could be noticed only when Germany destroyed other state governments, so Hitler's target was a colonial conflict in European countries itself. Inside the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. Some individuals, the righteous few, aided them, without support from corporations. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these amazing individuals. The almost insurmountable challenges they experienced only verify the risks of state destruction and ecological anxiety. These men and women should be emulated, however in similar circumstances handful of us would do this. By looking over the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we've misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The first 21st century is arriving to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with water and food accompany ideological issues to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and keeping it requires us to start to see the Holocaust as it was - and ourselves once we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and absolutely absorbing, Black colored Earth discloses a Holocaust that's not only record but warning.
