Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-06-02
Books mentioned on Part Two: Ancient Genocide and the War on Carthage
Robert is joined again by Joe Kassabian to continue to discuss ancient genocide. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans recommended Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder, discussed Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning, and criticized Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ordinary Men
Ordinary Men by Christopher R.
Discussed“I mean, that's pretty pretty solidly thrown out the window by uh Christopher Browning's work um in Ordinary Men, which then spawned one of the worst books on the Holocaust I think I've ever read called Hitler's Willing Executioners.”
Where to get it
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Hitler's Willing Executioners
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is a controversial historical study examining the role of ordinary German citizens in the Holocaust and their complicity in genocide.
Critiqued“I mean, that's pretty pretty solidly thrown out the window by uh Christopher Browning's work um in Ordinary Men, which then spawned one of the worst books on the Holocaust I think I've ever read called Hitler's Willing Executioners.”
Where to get it
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Bloodlands
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder is a historical examination of the mass killings and political atrocities committed by the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in Eastern Europe during the mid-twentieth century.
Recommended“the guy who wrote Bloodlands, um, which is a great book about the the genocide in in primarily like East or in like Ukraine and and Poland will point out that the areas in which the Jewish communities were most thoroughly destroyed were places that had suffered what he called double state destruction.”
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