About the Book: World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of
the Jews
The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 1941 and
1945 26 million, more than any other country is widely known. But the faces and
the 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