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World Enemy No. 1
Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
Brief Description
The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 1941 and 1945—26 million, more than any other country—is widely known. However, the faces and voices of these victims of Nazism are conspicuously absent. In this pathbreaking new work of history, Jochen Hellbeck restores the...
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World Enemy No. 1
A major new history that transforms our understanding of the Second World War, tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s deadly hostility towards Soviet Russia
A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II, tracing the conflict and the Holocaust to Germany's deadly hostility towards Soviet Russia
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The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 1941 and 1945—26 million, more than any other country—is widely known. However, the faces and voices of these victims of Nazism are conspicuously absent.
In this 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 Western powers but Communist Russia that Nazi Germany viewed as the greatest threat to its existence—World Enemy No. 1. The German crusade against 'Judeo-Bolshevism' was the driving force of the Nazis' most extreme violence, and Soviet territory became ground zero for systematic extermination. Only later was this shocking regime of killing extended to all Jews, igniting the Holocaust.
Revealing the sheer, untold breadth of terror the Nazis inflicted, World Enemy No. 1 is an astonishing new reading both of the Second World War and of how its history has been told.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035083893
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 42.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 560
About the Author
Jochen Hellbeck is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, specializing in modern Russia, the Soviet Union, and the history of World War II. The recipient of multiple prestigious fellowships, he is the acclaimed author of Stalingrad: The City That Defeated the Third Reich, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin, and the online project "Facing Stalingrad". He lives in Brooklyn.
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