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Nicole Eaton's book "German Blood, Slavic Soil" delves into the history of Königsberg, later known as Kaliningrad, during the Nazi and Soviet occupations from 1944 to 1948. The book explores how the ideologies and practices of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union clashed and overlapped in this borderland region. Eaton's work highlights the impact of local circumstances on the transformation of these territories by the empires, drawing from a wide range of German and Russian sources. The book provides a nuanced account of the aftermath of the war, detailing the harrowing experiences of the residents under Soviet rule and the eventual expulsion of the German population by 1948. [Extracted from the article] |
