Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
par Timothy Snyder
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Timothy Snyder pdf - LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people.
It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think.
Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, and thus all the more terrifying.Rang parmi les ventes Amazon: #95214 dans eBooksPublié le: 2015-09-17Sorti le: 2015-09-17Format: Ebook KindlePrésentation de l'éditeurLONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people.It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think.Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, and thus all the more terrifying.Revue de presse"Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future" (Ian Kershaw)"A wholly readable and utterly persuasive attempt to get us to look at the Holocaust in a different light. I read it twice, aghast but gripped by the moral abyss into which I was plunged on each page" (Observer)"Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew" (Deborah Lipstadt)"Part history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and challenging reinterpretation" (Henry A. Kissinger)"In this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitler's genocide firmly in the politics and diplomacy of 1930s Europe. Black Earth is required reading for anyone who cares about this difficult period of history" (Anne Applebaum)Présentation de l'éditeurLONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people.It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think.Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, and thus all the more terrifying.
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Titre du livre : Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Auteur : Timothy Snyder
Date de sortie : 2015-09-17
Catégorie : Subjects
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Vous trouverez ci-dessous quelques critiques les plus utiles sur Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Vous pouvez considérer cela avant de décider d'acheter / lire ce livre.3 internautes sur 5 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile.Une bonne grosse thèse - des chapitres trop courts et sélectifs pour qu'ils soient totalement convaincantsPar Norman YokeL'ouvrage, au-delà des polémiques passées et à venir, fait le point, comme Bloodlands, sur la place de l'Etat dans la protection des populations. Les arguments sont forts, tombent souvent juste, mais Tim Snyder ne se gêne pas pour contourner certaines difficultés liées à la difficulté d'avoir, justement, un phénomène européen avec des déclinaisons multiples.Oui, l'Etat absent est souvent synonyme de mortalité record pour les Juifs (polonais, biélorusses, ukrainiens, néerlandais...), mais dans d'autres cas, le déterminisme fonctionne moins bien. Le cas du Protectorat de Bohême-Moravie, où le taux de déportation et de meurtre est très élevé, frappant une communauté bien assimilée, et où un gouvernement tchèque est préservé - fut-il, comme ailleurs, très encadré par des Allemands, y compris des Allemands locaux -, aurait apporté un éclairage intéressant. Or, il n'est pas évoqué, quand les cas croates ou slovaques sont expédiés en une page.Des déceptions et de beaux morceaux pour un ouvrage qui a le mérite de relancer certains débats historiographiques. La bibliographie n'est pas sans intérêt et recense des approches très variées, mais elle n'est pas hiérarchisée et, en définitive, peu exploitée dans le corps du texte, qui ignore les apports de nombreux historiens ou historiens-anthropologues.
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