Stalin's War of Extermination 1941-1945: Planning, Realization and Documentation Book

The jacket cover bears the inscription "Approved by German Public Censors." The flap copy asserts that "this book does not violate any German law"—and that official judicial approval was obtained in order to "protect the author from criminal prosecution in Germany, where historians dissenting with official German myths are frequently subject to prosecution and sometimes even imprisonment." Hoffmann is a German historian who has devoted decades of study to Soviet military history; in particular, he has investigated Stalin's atrocities, propaganda, and goals and seeks to demonstrate that Germany's activities during World War II were in response to Stalin's threat of extermination and world domination and look mild by comparison. The book was originally published in German in 1999; this is the first English edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)