Book review: Bloodlands is as apt a title for a history of Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine under Stalin and Hitler as it is for one of modern Cambodia or Rwanda. Timothy Snyder focuses on the horrific mortality among civilians in the vast area between Germany and Russia: Ukrainian peasants in the collectivisation of 1929-33, Jews between 1941 and 1945, Poles between 1939 and 1945, and Belarusians from Stalin's 'Great Terror' in 1937 to the retreat of the Germans in 1944.
Was für Deutschland der Versailler Vertrag war, das war für Ungarn der Vertrag von Trianon: ein "Schmach- und Schandfrieden", der die Magyaren und ihr Selbstverständnis ins Mark traf....Eine Allianz zwischen Ungarn und Deutschland galt seit 1919 als vorprogrammiert.
Linke und Israel. Ben Cohen vom American Jewish Committee schreibt u.a. "It is equally true that the extremes of left and right identify increasingly with the portrait of Jewish power as global, transcendental, and unaccountable; that they use the terms “Jew” and “Zionist” interchangeably; and that they admiringly regard Islamism as the primary source of opposition to American and “Zionist” ambitions in the Middle East and, by extension, the world."