The Judeo-Bolshevist Target
The Nazi obsession with Judeo-Bolshevism | Omer Bartov | The New York Review of Books The Judeo-Bolshevist Target Omer Bartov Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking. July 23, 2026 issue Tivadar Lissák/Fortepan Nazi propaganda posters, Budapest, 1944 Reviewed: World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews by Jochen Hellbeck Penguin Press, 536 pp., $35.00 Sometime in early 1983, toward the end of my time as a graduate student at Oxford University, I met with the military historian Michael Howard, who had served as an officer during World War II and fought in the Italian campaign. As I followed this distinguished, rather reserved scholar toward the entrance of All Souls College, where he was a fellow, he sensed my unease at walking across the immaculate lawn. Grinning discreetly, he muttered, “They’d shoot you were you to do...
