Black earth
by Timothy Snyder · first published 2015
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"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." --publisher's description "In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that
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The book that completely changed my view on Hitler was 'Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning' by Timothy Snyder. It explained a lot of the inner logic of WWII and the Holocaust.
on “Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s death, how Germans see him is changing” ↗Heil Hitler! /s (Seriously, read Snyder's _Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning_ for how Hitler saw the US as a role model.)
on “Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’” ↗…here just involves the assumptions that pain is worse than not pain, and that human life is intrinsically valuable. I'm fine with making both assumptions -- especially since I've read Timothy Snyder's _Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning_, which explores the thought of the most famous proponent of the mankind-needs-more-Darwinian-selection-pressure alternative. "I disagree with Hitler" isn't exactly…
on “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)” ↗…grandparents, of course, were also Jews)... his father, a wonderful human being, and a serious anti-racist Austrian. Yet this form of obsession continues. Timothy Snyder makes some great remarks in "The Black Earth"- "There need not be any compelling reason for concern about life and death, as the Nazi example shows, only a momentary conviction that dramatic action is needed to preserve a way of life. [...] Perhaps…
on “You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)” ↗…fee, if your local one does not have good media databases. That way, you get some of the best media databases of any public library imaginable. Personally, I enjoy history books the most. On Tyranny and Black Earth are the books that got me in to reading. I also love seeing whatever book reviews FinancialTimes.com (subscription site) posted, and I usually will read at least 2 books per week.
on “Ask HN: How Do You Read?” ↗Sounds interesting. By contrast Timothy Snyder in _Black_Earth_ argues that concentration camps were created as institutions that were deliberately outside of the state to facilitate slaughter: http://www.npr.org/2015/09/09/438943243/black-earth-explores...
on “Concentration camps reveal the nature of the modern state” ↗I am currently listing to the audio book 'Black Earth' from Timothy Snyder. There the author shows the aforementioned links and inspirations for Stalin and Hitler in how the US dealt with the natives. I am interested in how the analysis will progress further.
on “Britain's 'concentration camp' in Russia” ↗…though you would expect it to be worst for Jews in Germany, it was often Poland and other states that had all legal structures and civil institutions destroyed who had it the worst. https://www.amazon.nl/Black-Earth-Holocaust-History-Warning/...
on “Cloudflare Email Service: private beta” ↗…Go Interpreter Writing a Go Compiler No One Cares about Crazy People I Heard You Paint Houses UNIX: A History and a Memoir Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine How Asia Works The Dream Machine Black Earth The Fabric of Reality Behave (tried twice, maybe third times a charm?) A Short History of Nearly Everything Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Genius: The Life and Science Richard Feynman…
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗