Europe At War No Simple Victory Summary

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Norman Davies, Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory (New York: History book, 2006). Norman Davies’s Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory argues how Stalin is just as evil as Hitler before and during World War 2. He tells how both man are the most two evils during the time. People of WW2 and present time should focus on Stalin more, and not just over look him. Stalin didn’t just control a part of Europe, but he also help shaped it like Hitler did.
Furthermore, Davies focus on the Eastern side of Europe more, because the Eastern side is just as important as the Western side. He talks about how anti-Semitism was in Europe, and why it was there. He wants people to know the different views of the war and how that impact the world of the past and present.
Though the book Davies talk about Stalin control. People would say Soviet Union and Germany Nazi was the biggest evil, but Davies says otherwise. “I don’t like to say which was worse, Hitler or Stalin. It depends who you were. Stalin’s regime lasted longer, while the Nazi regime was very short. The Nazis killed people by pseudo-racial criteria. The Nazi ideology was clear – if you are in the ‘wrong’ category, you will be likely to be killed. But Stalin killed people by numbers, giving orders, ‘kill 50,000 people”. Hitler shows the terribleness of the Holocaust, while Stalin killed far more than Hitler. Stalin killed over 20 million people in his life time, half of them was during