Volume 56, Number 19 · December 3, 2009
Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews
By Timothy Snyder
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
Penguin, 926 pp., $40.00
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
by Yitzhak Arad
University of Nebraska Press/Yad Vashem, 700 pp., $45.00
The Nazi foreign minister had lost his patience with the Poles. 'You are stubborn on these maritime questions,' he told Polish diplomats in January 1939. 'The Black Sea is also a sea!'[1] Joachim von Ribbentrop had been trying for years to induce Poland to join Germany in a war against the Soviet Union. Germany would annex from Poland districts by the Baltic Sea; the two countries would invade the USSR; and Poland would be compensated with conquered Soviet territory on the Black Sea.
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