黑地球：作為歷史和警告的大屠殺
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蒂莫西·斯奈德
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對我們這個時代的決定性悲劇的精彩、令人難以忘懷和深刻的原創描繪。
在這部關於滅絕和生存的史詩般的歷史中，蒂莫西·斯奈德對 20 世紀的大暴行提出了新的解釋，並揭示了我們在 21 世紀面臨的風險。根據來自東歐的新消息來源和猶太倖存者被遺忘的證詞，《黑土》將猶太人大屠殺描述為離我們很近的事件，比我們想像的更容易理解，因此也更可怕。
在希特勒的腦海中，大屠殺開始於一個黑暗但容易接近的地方，他認為消滅猶太人將恢復地球的平衡，讓德國人獲得他們迫切需要的資源。這種世界觀只有在德國摧毀其他國家的情況下才能實現，因此希特勒的目標是在歐洲本身進行殖民戰爭。在無國籍地區，幾乎所有猶太人都死了。少數人，少數正義的人，在沒有機構支持的情況下幫助了他們。本書中的許多新研究都致力於了解這些非凡的個體。他們所面臨的幾乎無法克服的困難，只是證實了國家毀滅和生態恐慌的危險。這些男人和女人應該被效仿，但在類似的情況下，我們很少有人會這樣做。
通過忽視大屠殺的教訓，斯奈德總結道，我們誤解了現代性並危及未來。隨著對食物和水的日益關注伴隨著對全球秩序的意識形態挑戰，21 世紀初正在變得類似於 20 世紀初。我們的世界比我們願意承認的更接近希特勒的世界，拯救它需要我們看到大屠殺的本來面目——以及我們自己。開創性、權威性和完全引人入勝的《黑地球》揭示了一場不僅是歷史而且是警告的大屠殺。
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Timothy Snyder
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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.
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 we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.
The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so.
By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was -- and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.
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