Dr. Timothy Snyder will be speaking on his New York Times bestselling book, Black Earth. BLACK EARTH explains in a forceful re-reading of the fundamental Nazi texts, the Holocaust began in Hitler’s mind. Hitler understood the planet as a limited resource and portrayed the Jewsas a supernatural power that prevented the races from undertaking the bloody struggle for what they deserved. Eradicating the Jews was a goal as much metaphysical and ecological as it was political and economic: doing so, Hitler thought, would restore balance to the entire planet and assure its bounty to the German people. Hitler’s worldview required a new kind of war—one that would allow Germans to destroy other states. It was in the territories of the Soviet Union, however, where the mass killing of Jews began.
Ryan Anthony Serrano
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