Black Earth. The Holocaust as History and Warning. Timothy Snyder

"Black Earth" is one of the most profound studies of the tragedy of the Holocaust, in which Timothy Snyder managed to combine a large-scale analysis of the nature of Nazism and Hitler's obsession with the extermination of Jews with unique stories of humanity, the search for honest answers about the reasons for collaboration with evil.

"Black Earth" forms a thematic dilogy with "Bloody Lands". As in the previous book, Snyder analyzes in detail the Ukrainian context of World War II, the Nazis' attitude and plans towards occupied Ukraine, the interaction between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, and the reasons for the destruction of millions of people by related totalitarian regimes.