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How Did It Happen?
Understanding the Holocaust
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2021
Summary
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of the
Holocaust in Lithuania provides the first overview for general readers that considers the perspectives of all the central groups involved—Jews, Lithuanians, and Germans. Drawing on a rich array of sources in all the key languages—Yiddish, Ivrit, Lithuanian, and German—Dieckmann considers not only the Berlin-based orientation of the German perpetrators but also the space where the Shoah took place—Lithuanian society with its Jewish minority under German occupation. He contends that this “space” of mass crimes is always linked with warfare and occupation. The Holocaust was unprecedented, but he makes a powerful case it cannot be isolated from the other mass crimes that took place at the same time in the same space against thousands of Soviet prisoners of war and forced refugees from the Soviet territories.
Dieckmann shows that the Holocaust could not have unfolded throughout German-dominated Europe without the conditional cooperation of non-Germans in each occupied country. Existing antisemitism was radicalized from the 1930s onward, turning Jews, under the enormous stress of unrelenting warfare and often instable conditions of occupation, into what were perceived as deadly enemies. The Holocaust, its history and memory, can only be understood through this broader context. The authors’ searching exchanges illuminate the most profound questions we have as we struggle to understand the Holocaust.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-5031-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-5032-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
413
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Contents No access
Prologue No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Why This Book? No access Pages 17 - 20
2 People Had a Choice No access Pages 21 - 28
3 Germany’s Trauma No access Pages 29 - 38
4 Lithuania’s Trauma No access Pages 39 - 44
5 The Jew Is the Devil No access Pages 45 - 50
6 Small and Radical No access Pages 51 - 56
7 Plans for Mass Murder No access Pages 57 - 66
8 “Blitzkrieg”: Local Helpers Needed! No access Pages 67 - 70
9 Lithuania’s Dream of Independence No access Pages 71 - 78
10 An Easy Occupation No access Pages 79 - 80
11 Controversies of the Uprising No access Pages 81 - 88
12 Enter the SS No access Pages 89 - 96
13 Jews in Panic No access Pages 97 - 104
14 Lithuanian Border Strip: The First Shootings No access Pages 105 - 110
15 Pogroms No access Pages 111 - 118
16 The First Mass Shooting of Jews in Kaunas No access Pages 119 - 128
17 The Road to Ponar No access Pages 129 - 146
18 Vigilante Lithuanian Courts No access Pages 147 - 152
19 Ghettoization in the Provinces No access Pages 153 - 156
20 Robbing the Living No access Pages 157 - 164
21 Lithuanian Fascists Take Over No access Pages 165 - 180
22 “Kill Them All!” No access Pages 181 - 190
23 The “Final Solution” in the Provinces No access Pages 191 - 200
24 The Oral Orders No access Pages 201 - 208
25 The Lithuanian Road Killers No access Pages 209 - 218
26 100,000 Trapped City Jews No access Pages 219 - 232
27 Life in the Ghettos: Hunger, Poetry, Death No access Pages 233 - 248
28 Choiceless Choices No access Pages 249 - 254
29 The Accidental Death of European Jews No access Pages 255 - 262
