When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning. - Timothy Snyder

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When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.

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Timothy David Snyder (born 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.

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Alternative Names: Timothy David Snyder Timothy D. Snyder T.D. Snyder Tim Snyder
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The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway, that made such mass starvation thinkable. In German prisoner-of-war camps for Red Army soldiers, the death rate over the course of the war was 57.5 percent. In the first eight months after Operation Barbarossa, it must have been far higher. In German prisoner-of-war camps for soldiers of the western Allies, the death rate was less than five percent. As many Soviet prisoners of war died on a single given day in autumn 1941 as did British and American prisoners of war over the course of the entire Second World War.

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