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CURRENTLY READING - Mind Game (Ghost Walkers #2) by Christine Feehan
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My big read for the month. Not exactly light summer reading, but my brother lent me the book. The Holocaust A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War The most comprehensive compilation of holocaust information, includes testimonial and records from Europe. Palestine, America..etc. This book is nearly 1000 pages of cruelty, torture and murder of the Jews of Europe. Starting at the beginning of early nazi power, to the end of the war and just after, this is a must read for the student of the Jewish holocaust. Anti semitism, already a part of European culture, was the reason why, in part, so many looked the other way or were complicit collaborators. The terror takes a turn when Germany invades Poland, then invaded Russia. As the German army pushed the Russian army east. So then did the pogroms of eastern Europe begin. Complicit in these were the Lithuanians, the Ukranians and the Poles. Encouraged by nazi antisemitism, some Lithuanian right wing militias didn't even wait for the German soldiers to get to town. No town, village or isolated community were spared if Jews lived there. Their fellow townspeople would turn them in. Jews were turned out of their homes, old and weak ones shot, and marched to pits already dug by locals. They were made to undress and stand in line as the proceeded to be shot. Babies were thrown by the legs and smashed against trees to save bullets. Children were pushed into pits alive to suffocate under the dead. Maybe a million Jews and thousands of communists were murdered this way until the germans were finally pushed back west by the Russians after about 2 years.
In some towns all over Europe, Jews were locked in synagogues and burned alive.
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