I had the opportunity recently to have dinner with and hear a lecture on the Ukraine by the author. He was a very effective guest and speaker, so I was eager to see how he wrote. I was not disappointed. This book held my attention from beginning to end despite the very difficult subject matter...
Double Occupation During the war Arendt, Eichmann, 240; see also Arendt, Origins, 22. It is interesting to note that the scholars who were most influential in the foundation of Holocaust studies did not themselves use east European languages, including Yiddish. Hilberg’s parents spoke Polish but ...
Nearly half of them were murdered east of the Molotov-Ribbentrop line, usually by bullets, sometimes by gas. The rest perished west of the Molotov-Ribbentrop line, usually by gas, sometimes by bullets. East of the Molotov-Ribbentrop line, a million Jews were killed in the second half of 1941, in ...