In stalin s war of extermination joachim hoffmann examines both the underlying causes and the ruthless execution of the war by russians and germans alike, in a thoroughly engrossing, systematic approach that is unsurpassed with respect to comprehensiveness, objectivity, and documentation. Evidence of a troubled upbringing, depression, paranoia, and alcohol abuse suggests psychopa thology as an implicating factor behind stalins actions. Pdf download panzerkampfwagen iii medium tank free. In this book, suvorov offers up a major refutation of the idea that hitler was the chief culprit of wwii, showing instead that stalin was the war s initiator.
The battlefields of the ussr witnessed the most devastating confrontations of world war ii. Divided into three categories, the kulaks were dispossessed and the most dangerous were shot. I thought that faith was the hallmark of those who revisionists like to label as believers. Stalin s apparatus of terror relied mostly on the nkvd.
The outbreak of the war between germany and the western allies in 1939 gave stalin the opportunity to prepare an attack against europe which was unparalleled in history both in terms of stalin s farreaching goals as well as in terms of the amount of troops and armaments amassed at the soviet. Ebeling f or most of the period since the end of world war ii the general interpretation about the role of the soviet union in the events leading up to the beginning. Ice breaker who started the second world war download pdf. Books by joachim hoffmann author of stalins war of. Stalins initials, scribbled in bright red pencil, appear on 357 lists.
Communist party of the soviet union and this register contained files from agitprop. The people simply refused to become cogs in the soviet farm machine and remained stubbornly determined to return to their presoviet farming lifestyle. War in the east and the extermination of the jews andreas hillgruber jewish bolshevism. Stalin s secret files on hitler 2005 03 17 by allan hall the scotsman uk berlin the secret personal files of the soviet dictator josef stalin on the private life of his greatest enemy, the nazi leader adolf hitler, have been unearthed in a moscow archive and are to be published next week in germany.
Stalins genocides, written by norman m naimark princeton. Learn about his younger years, his rise to power and his brutal reign that caused. This, in fact, is the most outstanding feature of hoffmanns welldocumented booknamely, that it is not runofthemill history but is, instead, a judicious, resourceful exploration and disclosure of stalin s aggressive war of extermination waged determinedly from 1941 to 1945. The dates of the german federal archives documents, as well as those of the german newspa pers quoted, are given in the original european format ddmm.
However, there is relatively little evidence on this subject. An examination of stalins docu mented behaviors attempts to evaluate any signs of psychopathology in accordance with dsmivtr criteria. Stalin s first purges date back to 193033 and were aimed at extermination of those who opposed industrialization and the kulaks welloff farmers and entrepreneurs, who opposed collectivization. The fact that jews were singled out for extermination by the german invaders of the ussr was inconvenient to stalins political agenda. Stalins death led to a temporary thaw in cold war tensions. Perhaps the best book yet written on josef stalin s plan for a world revolution by conquering europe in a war of complete extermination. Comrade stalins speeches, reports and orders of the day delivered during the patriotic war the soviet people waged against the german fascist invaders are collected in the book on the great patriotic war of the soviet union, which has gone through five editions. I have previously offered a summary of suvorovs book, and have since updated my timeline to war to reflect information found therein. Since the secret government documents of the 1930s became. Harry dexter white wikipedia, the free encyclopedia harry dexter white october 9, 1892 august 16, 1948 was an american economist, and a senior u. Stalins war a radical new theory of the origins of the second world war by ernst topitsch. The outbreak of the war between germany and the western allies in 1939 gave stalin the opportunity to prepare an attack against europe which was unparalleled in history both in terms of stalins farreaching goals as well as in terms of the amount of troops and armaments. Planning, realization and documentation by joachim hoffmann 3. Stalins war of extermination 19411945 germar rudolf.
Krushchevexposs ewa s thus not a critique of the surreal social system whose chief architect stalin had been, but of stalin the man, his sickly suspicions, and his crimes agains. Theeconomic transformation that led to the soviet industrialization is therefore one of the most important questions in economic history. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the ice breaker who started the second world war, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Revising the history of the second world wars crucial russogerman campaign is very much a work in progress, nowhere more so than in russia and germany.
Stalin saves the world stalin and the evolution of the. Can there be any real doubt who was the prime mover in the tumultuous events of 19331945. Which was worse, hitlers extermination camps, chelmo, or. Oct 20, 2016 from simple statistics as pole or polish jew before war 10% of population it would be far better to be on gulag than concentration camp. Joseph stalin 18781953 was the dictator of the union of soviet socialist republics ussr from 1929 to 1953. This book describes in detail the desperate attempt of the german army to prevent stalins plan for a world revolution by conquering europe in. The stalinist line, as pointed out by british historian antony beevor in the introduction to a writer at war. For naimark, labeling stalins mass killing genocide entails a rigorous exegesis of the concept itself its history, legal complexities, boundaries, and universe.
On 20 august 1939 hitler asked stalin for a meeting, and stalin was more than happy to agree. Sep 23, 2015 based on the late joachim hoffmann s lifelong study of german and russian military records, stalin s war of extermination not only revealsas never beforethe red army s grisly record of atrocities against soldiers and civilians, but establishes beyond cavil that torture, murder, and rape of the captive and the helpless was official soviet. Based on the late joachim hoffmanns lifelong study of german and russian military records, stalins war of extermination not only. The breakthrough bestseller by a german academic and longtime researcher with the german military archives that documented stalins murderous war against the german army and the german people to todays german public. Stalins war of extermination castle hill publishers codoh.
The purges swept through the officer corps, including. Each entry is examined over two spreads and includes a brief description of the tanks development and history, a color profile artwork, photographs, key features, and. Georgy zhukovs close call with stalins killers war is boring. Stalin s genocides, written by norman m naimark princeton university press, 2010 logue library call number. The goal is not like other types of warfare, the recognition of. Was stalin necessary for russias economic development. So has the extermination of the don cossacks by the soviets in the 1920s, and volga germans, in 1941. The reformer gorbachev tried every possible maneuver to avoid telling the poles the truth, and even then gave a confession that protected stalin and the politburo of the communist party. Adolf hitler, aware of stalins massing of troops and materiel on russias western border, launched operation barbarossa in 1941 to. For any normal person, this proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that stalin knew, said project director yan rachinsky. Leading the assault across a 1,000mile front were 152 german divisions, supported by 14 finnish divisions in the north and 14 romanian divisions in the south later, the 3. Joseph stalin gives speech at communist party congress. He was the senior american official at the 1944 bretton woods conference, and reportedly dominated the conference and imposed his vision of postwar financial institutions.
Certainly there was none that even came close to threatening stalins power. Hoffmann has made extensive use of interrogations of. Planning, realization, and documentation, by joachim hoffmann. Based on the late joachim hoffmanns lifelong study of german and russian military records, stalins war of extermination not only revealsas never beforethe red armys grisly record of atrocities against soldiers and civilians, but establishes beyond cavil that torture, murder, and rape of the captive and the helpless was official. Why does the holocaust overshadow stalins extermination. In every one of those battles, communist dictator josef stalin exercised his influence, meddling with and executing his generals, hurling unprepared armies into pure chaos, and meeting with his western allies to divide the world up into zones of influence that would soon be embroiled in a new war. The nazis and the ss were the good guysbut the antinazis and the antirevisionists dare not admit it for fear of losing their fabulous, ill gotten gains from the war. Stalins genocides, written by norman m naimark princeton university press, 2010 logue library call number. This book describes in detail the desperate attempt of the german army to prevent stalins plan for a world revolution by conquering europe in a war of extermination. The racebased aspect of the holocaust is really disgusting to a lot of people and rightfully so.
Planning, realization and documentation by joachim hoffmann. Only the holocaust of world war ii fully corresponded to them. Nevertheless, suspicions that opposition still did exist made the police look for enemies everywhere. This is a small book that places a large exclamation point on the most incriminatingly tragic dimension of soviet history. He courted stalin for a war against poland for three days in august 1939, and was accepted with enthusiasm.
Adolf hitler, aware of stalin s massing of troops and materiel on russia s western border, launched operation barbarossa in 1941 to thwart the massive. He led the soviet union to victory during the second world war, though his own people. The german invasion of the soviet union began a little before dawn on sunday 22 june 1941. Stalinism and the economics of wartime university of warwick. Chapter three discusses these analyses, as well as the process by which the united states used a severe drought in yugoslavia to offer military assistance. In 1995, right after he had retired, he published his work stalins vernichtungskrieg 19411945 stalins war of extermination. N35 2010 first floor stacks abstract from the book cover between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, joseph stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Hitler had courted poland as an ally for a war against the soviet union for five years, between early 1934 and early 1939, and was refused. History remembers the soviets and the nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of world war ii whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. The goal can be outwarddirected or inward, against elements of ones own population. Stalins massacre and the seeds of polish resurrection annapolis, md. In 1950, the outbreak of the korean war caused a reassessment within the cia of stalin s willingness to go to war in the balkans. Hitlers racialideological dogma special units of the ss commenced the systematic extermination of the jews in the occupied soviet territories as soon as the attack on the soviet union was launched, on june 22, 1941.
In 1955, austria regained its sovereignty and became an independent, neutral nation after the withdrawal of soviet troops from the country. From simple statistics as pole or polish jew before war 10% of population it would be far better to be on gulag than concentration camp. While the holocaust was completely unnecessary and even detrimental to the war effort. The present book has been turned into a video documentary featuring many of the newspaper clippings and book excerpts mentioned here, and additional material not included in this book. Hitler, stalin, and the battle for poland part ii as a matter of fact, hitler did not utilize the gleiwitz incident at all. In this book, suvorov offers up a major refutation of the idea that hitler was the chief culprit of wwii, showing instead that stalin was the wars initiator. The next year, khrushchev denounced stalin and his policies at the 20th communist party conference. The purges and stalins continued impact on the wars history.
Jan 01, 2001 buy stalins war of extermination 1941 1945. Stalins grand design to start world war ii, by viktor suvorov an offensive, not a defensive, war. Stalins war of extermination by joachim hoffmann 2001. Stalin s war by ernst topitsch, 1987, fourth estate edition, in english. Writing the great patriotic wars official history during khrushchevs. Stalins secret files on hitler 2005 03 17 by allan hall the scotsman uk berlin the secret personal files of the soviet dictator josef stalin on the private life of his greatest enemy, the nazi leader adolf hitler, have been unearthed in a moscow archive.
Beginning with the prototype mark v male in 1917, the book features 52 of the best armored fighting vehicles from world war i, world war ii, through the cold war to today. Stalins war against the peasants began in earnest towards the end of 1929. Indeed, between the mid1930s and the end of world war two no notable organized actions are known to have taken place. Leading the assault across a 1,000mile front were 152 german divisions, supported by 14 finnish divisions in the north and 14 romanian divisions in the south.
The first pdf in the files list on the left is contains relevant excerpts from stalins war of extermination by historian joachim hoffman. This, in fact, is the most outstanding feature of hoffmann s welldocumented booknamely, that it is not run of themill history but is, instead, a judicious, resourceful exploration and disclosure of stalin s aggressive war of extermination waged determinedly from 1941 to 1945. Since the 1920s, stalin planned to invade western europe in order to initiate the world revolution. Planning, realization and documentation joachim hoffmann on. In a twopronged attack he ordered to eliminate the dekulakization as a class and to collectivize the middle and poor peasants. The first pdf in the files list on the left is contains relevant excerpts from stalin s war of extermination by historian joachim hoffman. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Overy shows us the human and historical roots of these evils. Ice breaker who started the second world war download. In his 1995 study stalins war of extermination 19411945, he pointed out that the chief soviet atrocity propagandist, ilya ehrenburg, had publicized the sixmillionfigure in the soviet foreign press as early as january 4, 1945, i. Vernichtungskrieg or war of extermination is a type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority through genocide or through the destruction of their livelihood. The specific death camps for extermination treblinka. Ussr apologists would argue that stalins purges were necessary for keeping stability in the country.
A world war ii era photo of soviet leader joseph stalin on right with top aide viachislav molotov who helped implement the 193233 famine policy in the ukraine. Based on the late joachim hoffmanns lifelong study of german and russian military records, stalins war of extermination not only revealsas never beforethe red armys grisly record of atrocities against soldiers and civilians, but establishes beyond cavil that torture, murder, and rape of the captive and the helpless was official soviet. A must read for anyone interested in real history, stalins war of extermination is based on newly released soviet documents. An indispensable book for all students of world war ii as it actually happened. The breakthrough bestseller by a german academic and longtime researcher with the german military archives that documented stalins murderous war against the german army and the german. Perhaps the best book yet written on josef stalins plan for a world revolution by conquering europe in a war of complete extermination. Beginning in 1936, soviet dictator joseph stalin set about deliberately murdering 700,000 people in the great purge, an act of mass killing that constituted a form of rule unto itself, as stalin biographer stephen kotkin explained.
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