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The mass killings carried out by the Nazi party and their allies during World War II are horrific. The impact certainly overshadowed other mass killings carried out by regimes in the 20th Century, but Benjamin A. Valentino is out to make sure these tragedies and their lessons do not go unnoticed. His book, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century, looks at all of the different places where, by his definition, at least 50,000 people are killed in a 5 year period. A brief list of mass killings:
- Soviet Union
- China
- Cambodia
- Nazi Germany
- Armenia
- Rwanda
- Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
- Guatemala
And there are probably more. This book provides a new look at the brutality of the 20th Century, but contains lessons one should remember.
