A group of refugees and migrants on their way to the Gevgelijas train station, minutes after they have crossed the Greek -Macedonian border. (Socrates Baltagianni/Invision/Redux)
American historian Timothy Snyder has a way with familiar historical moments—and they don’t come more familiar than the Holocaust—that turns them on their heads, just by the way he holds them to the light. In his latest work, Black Earth, he takes a well-known image—the sight of Jews, jeered by their fellow Viennese, being made to scrub their city’s sidewalks in the days after the Anschluss, Austria’s forcible reunion with Nazi Germany in 1938—and asks …read more
Source: Macleans
