Nazi Colonization and Extermination in Ukraine Making of Modern Ukraine 16 - Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder continua sua séria "ucraniana":  

Nazi Colonization and Extermination in Ukraine

Making of Modern Ukraine 16

TIMOTHY SNYDER APR 30

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The subject this time is Ukraine as the object of Hitler’s plan to attain Lebensraum. Ukraine was to be the most important colony in the German empire he meant to build. The idea was to exploit the same territory Stalin exploited, but to different ends, and while destroying the Soviet system. As I tried to show here and in Bloodlands, the Nazi aspiration to control Ukraine was one of the necessary conditions of the Holocaust of the European Jews. 

This lecture reviews the German factor in Ukraine history broadly before presenting the terrible reality of Nazi occupation. Although Russia tries to claim the suffering and the victory for itself today, inhabitants of Soviet Ukraine were greater risk of death than inhabitants of Soviet Russia. For that matter, more Ukrainians died fighting the Germans than Americans, British, and French taken together.

The video is here  (here)

and the podcast version is here or here: here

Reading:

Snyder, Bloodlands, chapters 4-5.

Plokhy, Gates of Europe, chapters 22, 23

Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory, chapters 1-4.

Terms:

Kingdom of the Franks

Holy Roman Empire

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Prussia

Frederick the Great 1740-1780

Kant 1724-1804, Königsberg

Hetmanate

Mein Kampf

Operation Barbarossa

final solution, Hunger Plan, Generalplan Ost

Babyn Yar/Babi Yar

Kamianets' Podils'kyi

Operation Typhoon

Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Stalino (Donetsk)