The Overstory is rad fiction. Just started listening to Ordinary Men which is about a Polish police battalion responsible for a great many murders during the Holocaust. The members of that battalion were, I guess, welcomed back into society afterwards? Idk, I just started. I'll tell you one thing, though: it's weird to absorb facts about the Shoah as digestible statistics fun facts (for lack of a better term) but those little snippets are very necessary to get my arms around the scale of things such as it. It's the same as happened when I listened to Late Victorian Holocausts. So now I have stats like

- 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"

> - 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.

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.