TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moorhouse,Roger
TI  - The devils' alliance: Hitler's pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 
SN  - 0465030750 (hbk.)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Germany
KW  - Treaties, etc
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - 1939 August 23
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Diplomatic history
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index; A meeting on the boundary of peace -- The devil's potion -- Bonded in blood -- Sharing the spoils -- Contortions -- A rough, uncertain wooing -- Oiling the wheels of war -- Comrade "Stonearse" in the lair of the fascist beast -- Riding the Nazi tiger -- No honor among thieves -- Life after death -- Appendix: text of the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
N2  - Explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern Europe; Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Bessarabia. The human cost was staggering: during the two years of the pact hundreds of thousands of people in central and eastern Europe caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or killed
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