POL101Y1 Lecture 4: POLSCI 101 NOTES 4
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During the mid 20 th century, the nazis and soviets killed 14 million people, most of which occurred in the region known as the bloodlands, which stretches from central poland to eastern russia. These 14 million deaths occurred between the years of. They were mostly poles, jews, ukrainians, and russians. They were not casualties of ware, and they were not soldiers. Snyder argues that while auschwitz is most known, there were many more which were strictly death factories (auschwitz was both a labour and death camp). Many jews were shot and killed near where they lived and never sent to a camp. The holocaust tends to overshadow hitler"s longaterm goals; he wanted to destroy the polish and soviet states, kill their ruling class, and execute millions of. Had hitler taken russia, many millions of russians would have been starved. Stalin"s record of mass killings was almost as worse.
