Abstract
The 1930s witnessed the intensification of violence in the two major states neighbouring Central and Eastern Europe: Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. With the outbreak of the Second World War in late 1939, this chapter argues that these two totalitarian states directed their violence outwards. Their imperialist policies, often supported by local governments, accounted for the unparalleled dimensions of violence, mass murder and genocide perpetrated in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe during the war, which may be described as a ‘war of extermination’. Both powers aimed to destroy the heterogeneous fabric of the region’s population, which produced a variety of violent ethnic and political conflicts fought out in the aftermath of occupation.
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