Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America{u2019}s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens{u2014}and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war{u2019}s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power... "--Jacket.