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- Title
The Causes of the Holocaust.
- Authors
SNYDER, TIMOTHY
- Abstract
Not long ago I was discussing before a theatre audience in Philadelphia a performance of ‘Our Class’, Tadeusz Słobodziański's remarkable theatrical reinterpretation of Jan Gross's pioneering book Neighbors. It helped so very much that the discussion took place after rather than before the performance! It is a great honour to find my book at the centre of this discussion by colleagues, but it would be great vanity on my part to expect that every reader of this exchange will have first read my book. And yet without some general sense of the argument and substance of Bloodlands, I can hardly explain why the four responses are so different each from the other, what underlying concerns unite them, and how they might be answered. The book is a study of all German and Soviet mass killing policies in the lands between the Black and Baltic Seas from south to north and from Smolensk to Poznan from east to west. It begins from the observation that fourteen million non-combatants were deliberately killed in this zone between 1933 and 1945, when both Stalin and Hitler were in power. The figure is very high in its own right, and represents the vast majority of Soviet and German killing. The territory can be defined in terms of the number of murdered, or as the place where the Holocaust was perpetrated, or as the zone touched by both German and Soviet power: all three definitions generate the same map of the bloodlands.
- Subjects
EASTERN Europe; POLAND; BLOODLANDS: Europe Between Hitler &; Stalin (Book); GENOCIDE; ATROCITIES in World War II; HISTORIOGRAPHY of the Holocaust, 1939-1945; NATIONALISM &; historiography; EASTERN European history, 1918-1945; AUSCHWITZ concentration camp; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777312000094