World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews

＂A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II--tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia＂-- Provided by publisher.

Jochen Hellbeck is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, specializing in modem Russia, the Soviet Union, and the history of World War II. The recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin, among others, 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.