German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Knigsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad Eaton Nicole
German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there.…
Specifikacia German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Knigsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad Eaton Nicole
German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what both Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an intricate timeline, first describing how Knigsberg, a 700-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the easternmost bastion of Hitler's Third Reich and launching point for the Nazis' genocidal war in the East. She then describes how, after being destroyed by bombing and siege in 1945,