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At the time of his death, Stalin was planning an even larger campaign against Jews, [3] [4] [5] which included the deportation of all Jews within the Soviet Union to Northern Kazakhstan. [1] According to his successor Nikita Khrushchev , Stalin was fomenting the doctors' plot as a pretext for further anti-Jewish repressions.
In May 1945, Churchill wrote to Truman hoping to arrange a meeting of the three governments to occur in June. Truman hoped for Stalin to propose the meeting so as to avoid the appearance that the Americans and British were ganging up on the Soviets. With some prompting from Truman's aide Harry Hopkins, Stalin proposed a meeting in the Berlin ...
Hannah Arendt in 1933. Hannah Arendt was one of the first scholars to publish a comparative study of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.In her 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt puts forward the idea of totalitarianism as a distinct type of political movement and form of government, which "differs essentially from other forms of political oppression ...
It was a major factor in making possible the migration of approximately 60,000 German Jews to Palestine between 1933 and 1939. [1] The agreement enabled Jews fleeing persecution under the new Nazi regime to transfer some portion of their assets to British Mandatory Palestine. [2]
The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Starting World War II 1937-1939 (1980) Weinberg, Gerhard L. Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939: The Road to World War II (2005) Wheeler-Bennett, John W. "Twenty Years of Russo-German Relations: 1919-1939" Foreign Affairs 25#1 (1946), pp. 23–43 online
The move opened Stalin's way to close ties with the Nazi state, as well as a quiet campaign removing Jews in high Soviet positions. [25] After World War II antisemitism escalated openly as a campaign against the "rootless cosmopolitan" [3] (a euphemism for "Jew").
Hasegawa also notes that Stalin told Truman at the Potsdam Conference that the Soviet Union would begin war with Japan within the beginning of August, but that American estimates placed the estimated time at the end of the month. [34]
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, [1] [2] and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact [3] [4] and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, [5] was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe. [6]