Posted by dan-bailey 1 day ago
Ask HN: What are you reading?
- Most Jewish victims of the Holocaust died by gunshot in the occupied USSR
- In March 1942, 80% of Holocaust victims were still alive and by February 1943 80% were dead.
- Per capita incomes were equal in the first and last years of the British Raj
- Indian grain exports increased in the 1880s and 90s and there were 3(?) different famines at that time
rattling around in my head in the same part that holds on to "Pakistan has never had a PM finish a 5 year term," "The Lions, Falcons, and Bills (non-exhaustive) have never won a Super Bowl," "There are no surviving contemperaneous attestations of Hamilcar and Hannibal Barca" and "the first drummer of the Beatles was called Pete Best and made an album called Best of the Beatles"
> - In March 1942, 80% of Holocaust victims were still alive and by February 1943 80% were dead.
Makes sense. A couple of things happened: 1942 Wannsee Conference in January 1942 - which I assume took some time during 1942 to get into motion.
Germany started losing, they realized they did not have the logistics to feed additional millions of people in the occupied territories.
- "On Writing Well" by Zinsser
Becky Chambers, the long way to a small angry planet (very good)
Asimov, Second foundation (just finished, not as good as Foundation but good still)
Maybe Knut Hansun, The last joy (Nazi sympathizer, might just put the book down - and book not blowing my mind)
Edit0: writing this and seeing Hansun was a Nazi collaborator - putting the book down