The Worst Government Crimes

by Anthony Gregory
Jan. 05, 2015

We can locate the deadliest place and time in world history, certainly for the modern West, in the stretch of land between Berlin and Moscow in the 1930s and 1940s. That setting hosted an unimaginable bloodbath thanks to the worst killers ever to plague Europe — Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. The region was home to the two dictators’ military conflict, the Eastern Front of World War II, the most lethal theater of war humanity ever saw. But even putting the combat aside, those two rulers implemented policies of deliberate mass murder of unarmed civilians and POWs that took more lives in a narrower span of time and space than we can attribute to virtually any other human cause.

No historian had ever before unified Hitler’s and Stalin’s deliberate killings under this geographical theme. Focusing on the bloodshed inflicted in this area, especially in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Timothy Snyder has written a superb history of Nazi and Soviet crimes in the region he calls “the bloodlands.” His book will shake to the core any reader with a love of humanity. With a grip on 10 relevant European languages, this Yale professor has created a gem of original archival research and a synthesis of the most recent historical literature in Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin.

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