To: Brumar89 who wrote (21480 ) 3/15/2003 10:28:47 PM From: Spytrdr Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898 sure, this is a good place to start, let me know if you want more Hoffmann, Joachim - Stalin's War of Extermination 1941-1945. Planning, Realization and Documentation amazon.com Since the 1920s, Stalin planned the “World Revolution" . The outbreak of war in 1939 gave him the opportunity to realize his plans violently. This did not escape Germany’s notice who in turn planned a preventive strike. Dr. Hoffmann’s book proves Stalin’s aggressive intentions, shows how the Bolsheviks used unimaginable violence to force their own unwilling soldiers to fight against the Germans. Furthermore, this book reveals not only the atrocious treatment of German POWs by the Red Army, but explains also how Soviet soldiers were incited to unlimited hatred against everything German. Finally, it gives the reader an unpleasant glimpse into the gigantic wave of looting, arson, rape, torture, and mass murder that befell East Germany at the end of the war. Stalin’s War was a war of extermination both against Germany and against the peoples of the Soviet Union. It was not before 1948 that the US government realized that it fought against the wrong enemy in Europe during WWII . The author, a former historian of the German government, is one of the world’s finest experts on the German-Soviet war. His book is a huge success in Germany where left-wingers unsuccessfully tried to urge the parliament to ban it and punish its author. and Butz, Arthur - The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry amazon.com ___ <<could you recommend some titles which you think would be particularly instructive?>>