German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad

In German Blood, Slavic Soil, Associate Professor Nicole Eaton reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, Königsberg became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.

The book presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during World War II. Eaton impressively shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.