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Jorg Baberowski & Anselm Doering-Manteuffel's Ordnung durch Terror ([Order Through Terror] Dietz-Verlag) is discussed as an example of the continuing debate in Germany & Europe on the similarities & differences between the Hitler & Stalin dictatorships. Karl Heinz Bohrer's (no bibliographic information provided) thesis that in Nazi Germany the persecution was carried out according to ethnic criteria, while in the Stalin-era communism the persecution was personal & selective is mentioned to demonstrate that Baberowski & Doering-Manteuffel's book debunks it, showing instead that also in the latter, destruction of enemies was a deliberate genocide. The authors also deny any causal connection between Bolshevik & Nazi terrors, thus rejecting Ernst Nolte's thesis that the latter was an extreme version of the former, from which it learned & copied its atrocities. It is pointed out, however, that it is difficult to explain many episodes from Nazi Germany's history of persecution & repression on the conquered territories without Nolte's thesis. It is concluded that the publisher of the book has a long & proud tradition of social-democratic & leftist values & views persisting in the distortion of the reality of the communist terror system. Z. Dubiel