Timothy Snyder
On his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Cover Interview of November 28, 2010
history /
europe /
violence /
20th century /
wwii /
soviet union /
holocaust /
stalin joseph /
eastern europe /
hitler adolph /
In a nutshell
Between 1933 and 1945, when both Hitler and Stalin were in power, their two regimes murdered some fourteen million people in the lands between Berlin and Moscow, which I call the Bloodlands.
This region then fell into shadow. Because the lands where Hitler killed during the war—Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, western Russia—all became part of Stalin’s empire thereafter.
I argue that the killing in the Bloodlands is the central event of the twentieth century. My book is its history.