German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe''s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.
Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an intricate timeline, first describing how K-nigsberg, a seven-hundred-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the easternmost bastion of Hitler''s Third Reich and the launching point for the Nazis'' genocidal war in the East. She then describes how, after being destroyed by bombing and siege warfare in 1945, K-nigsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of Stalin''s Soviet Union. K-nigs
