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How Did It Happen?: Understanding the Holocaust

How Did It Happen?: Understanding the Holocaust

Paperback

General World HistoryHolocaustWorld War II

ISBN10: 1538189283
ISBN13: 9781538189283
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 15 2023
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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