PositiveThe Wall Street JournalAmong his other goals in Bloodlands, Mr. Snyder attempts to put the Holocaust in context—to restore it, in a sense, to the history of the wider European conflict. This is a task that no historian can attempt without risking controversy. Yet far from minimizing Jewish suffering, Bloodlands gives a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine ... Yet Mr. Snyder\'s book does make it clear that Hitler\'s \'Final Solution,\' the purge of European Jewry, was not a fully original idea ... Bloodlands manages to clarify as well as darken our view of this era.
