SLAUGHTER ON THE EASTERN FRONT
May 20, 2021
4 minutes
EXPERT BIO
DR ALEX KAY
Alex Kay is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany, including The Making of an SS Killer (2016). His latest book, Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing, is due out in the UK on 28 September.
While more combatants were killed than in any other theatre, it’s the horrific violence against cultural and racial groups for which the front was infamous. “Operation Barbarossa was the first campaign during World War II in which the systematic mass murder of Jews and
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