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Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the savage fighting as Budapest collapsed into anarchy. Hungarian death squads roamed the streets as the city's Jews were forced into ghettos or were shot into the Danube. 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Often elided, if not simply forgotten, is the Soviet Union's crucial role in that fight. With this book, acclaimed historian Jochen Hellbeck rectifies this omission by relocating the ideological core of the conflict. It was not the Western powers but Communist Russia that Nazi Germany viewed as an existential threat--in fact, \"World Enemy No. 1.\" Jewish revolutionaries, the Nazis believed, had seized power in 1917 and were preparing the Soviet state to destroy Germany and the world. And so, on June 22, 1941, a German army of three million attacked the Soviet Union to exterminate \"Judeo-Bolshevism,\" Hitler's cardinal obsession. While Europe's Jews were expelled, exiled, and persecuted by the Nazis, Soviet Jews were immediately slated for elimination. 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Recounted here in vivid detail are the events at Babi Yar, the Battle of Stalingrad, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the arrival of the Red Army in the Nazi capital. 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Written by the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eViolins of Hope, \u003c\/i\u003ethis is a riveting window into a little-known aspect of WWII for history buffs, fans of the movie \u003ci\u003eDefiance \u003c\/i\u003estarring Daniel Craig, and readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Violinist of Auschwitz, \u003c\/i\u003e Rebecca Frankel's\u003ci\u003e Into the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Light of Days \u003c\/i\u003eby Judy Batalion.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrior to the Holocaust, Moshe Gildenman lived a simple life as a cultural leader in his hometown of Korets, Ukraine. When the Nazis murdered 2,200 Jews in his peaceful community, including his wife and daughter, Moshe responded not with prayer and grieving but with a cry for revenge. 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