World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews

In the Nazi imagination, the USSR was the most powerful Jewish organization in the world. They called it 'World Enemy No. 1'. The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 19 ...

In the Nazi imagination, the USSR was the most powerful Jewish organization in the world. They called it 'World Enemy No. 1'. The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 1941 and 1945 - 26 million, more than any other country - is widely known. But the faces and the voices of these victims of Nazism are conspicuously absent. In a pathbreaking new work of history, Jochen Hellbeck restores the USSR to its proper place in the history of the Second World War, arguing that to truly understand the conflict, we must set its axis firmly in Soviet territory. It was not the W