Thomas’s Reviews > The Third Reich at War > Status Update

It's actually sad how far the power of collective actions, Communist resistance and later on Union strikes, have fallen - becoming completly irrelevant in the current scheme despite the fact the general living standard is the worst/scariest it's been since the end of WW2 in the West.

The guilt is honestly surprising. I should watch 'The Zone of Interest' again.

I've for sure read this before, but I feel like this is the first time it registers that Heydrich was assassinated by the Czech (based).

Strange to imagine that some of the Task Force men (SS and police) committed suicide due to what they did. The question remains is how were any of these people allowed to survive and live with themselves. Not that this phenomenon continues to the present day…

It's a bit baffling how the 'Holocaust by bullets' isn't really emphasized in basic history classes on WW2. At least from what I remember, I only really understood the distinction when doing my own reading.

Potential PhD topic: Historical relations between Balts, Russians, and Jews, specifically differences between the relationships during Tsarist Russia (pogroms), Nazi occupation, and the USSR + current memory and attitudes.

Evans treatment of the Soviet Union proves that he's a historian worth his craft as he neither tries to demonize the USSR (especially horrid to try and do given the central topic) nor glaze it as some valiant 'anti-fascist' heroic force. His antidotes on Stalin, and the treatment between Soviet and Germans POWs are just central to his credibility.

Was Stalin's head filled with literal bricks? Guy defects from Germany to tell him that the Germans are invading tomorrow morning. Stalin: "Whoops you're spreading misinformation. Say bye-bye to your life-life!" ^-^