I'm not a professional historian, but the author's position is a guarantee of seriousness and scientific rigor. Book of great analytical density, and terribly impressive in many ways by the reality it reveals. Two examples among others, full of meaning and questioning, which particularly struck me in two completely different perspectives: the famine organized by Stalin in Ukraine; 15 of the 25 SS field commanders responsible to eliminate the Jews in the territories of Eastern Europe were PhDs ...