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June 1941 Hitler and Stalin books by john lukacs The Great Powers and Eastern Europe Tocqueville: The European Revolution and Correspondence with Gobineau (editor) A History of the Cold War Decline and Rise of Europe A New History of the Cold War Historical Consciousness The Passing of the Modern Age A Sketch of the History of Chestnut Hill College, 1924–1974 The Last European War, 1939–1941 1945: Year Zero Philadelphia: Patricians and Philistines, 1900–1950 Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture Confessions of an Original Sinner The Duel: 10 May–31 July; The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age Destinations Past George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944–1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence The Hitler of History A Thread of Years Five Days in London, May 1940 A Student’s Guide to the Study of History At the End of an Age Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. A New Republic Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred Remembered Past: A John Lukacs Reader June 1941 Hitler and Stalin John Lukacs yale university press ∏ new haven and london Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Amasa Stone Mather of the Class of 1907, Yale College. Copyright ∫ 2006 by John Lukacs. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Designed by James J. Johnson and set in Carter and Cone Galliard Roman type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc., Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lukacs, John, 1924– June 1941 : Hitler and Stalin / John Lukacs. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-300-11437-9 (alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-300-11437-0 (alk. paper) 1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Russia. 2. World War, 1939–1945— Russia. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Germany. 4. Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945. 5. Stalin, Joseph, 1879–1953. I. Title. d764.l817 2006 940.54%217—dc22 2005057464 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to Robert Ferrell Contents Limitations. Acknowledgments. ix o n e A Historical Perspective 1 pa r t i Hitler and Stalin t w o Hitler 7 t h r e e Stalin 43 Contents pa r t i i The Twenty-Second of June f o u r Berlin 89 f i v e Moscow 95 s i x London 101 s e v e n Washington—and Across the World 109 pa r t i i i Unintended Consequences e i g h t The Immediate Crisis 117 n i n e Unintended Consequences 129 a p p e n d i x The Mystery of Hitler’s ‘‘Letter’’ and the Courier Plane 147 Documents, Books, and Articles Consulted 159 Index 165 viii Limitations. Acknowledgments. This book is less than a monograph but more than a narra- tive summary. I have been fascinated with German-Russian relations and with Hitler’s and Stalin’s relations and reac- tions to each other, especially in 1939–1941, and wrote in some detail about them in my The Last European War, 1939– 1941 (New York, 1976). For that book I had access to Ger- man and other archives but not to Russian ones. For this book my limitations include my inability to read Russian, whereby I was also bereft of the at times pleasurable experi- ence of finding and reading all kinds of things in foreign archives. I was, however, able to read many of the Russian documents that have come to the surface during the past twenty years: some of them in their published forms, some of them in German and other translations. A fair amount of the latter I was able to read in the library of the Institut für
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