Format:
1 online resource (413 pages)
ISBN:
9781538150320
Content:
In this compelling book, Lithuanian writer Ruta Vanagaite holds a frank conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann.. Her searching exchanges with Dieckmann illuminate the most profound questions we have as we struggle to understand the causes and consequences of the Holocaust.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Why This Book? -- 2 People Had a Choice -- 3 Germany's Trauma -- 4 Lithuania's Trauma -- 5 The Jew Is the Devil -- 6 Small and Radical -- 7 Plans for Mass Murder -- 8 "Blitzkrieg": Local Helpers Needed! -- 9 Lithuania's Dream of Independence -- 10 An Easy Occupation -- 11 Controversies of the Uprising -- 12 Enter the SS -- 13 Jews in Panic -- 14 Lithuanian Border Strip: The First Shootings -- 15 Pogroms -- 16 The First Mass Shooting of Jews in Kaunas -- 17 The Road to Ponar -- 18 Vigilante Lithuanian Courts -- 19 Ghettoization in the Provinces -- 20 Robbing the Living -- 21 Lithuanian Fascists Take Over -- 22 "Kill Them All!" -- 23 The "Final Solution" in the Provinces -- 24 The Oral Orders -- 25 The Lithuanian Road Killers -- 26 100,000 Trapped City Jews -- 27 Life in the Ghettos: Hunger, Poetry, Death -- 28 Choiceless Choices -- 29 The Accidental Death of European Jews -- 30 Forgotten Victims: Soviet POWs -- 31 Forgotten Victims: The Soviet Evacuees -- 32 Slavery -- 33 No to the SS Legion -- 34 To Die as Free Fighters -- 35 Survival and Terror -- 36 The End: Vilnius -- 37 The End: Šiauliai -- 38 The End: Kaunas -- 39 The Murdered "Others" -- 40 Burning the Bodies -- 41 To Save a Jew -- 42 The Silence of the Church -- 43 The Brief Story of Lithuanian Resistance -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781538150313
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dieckmann, Christoph, 1960 - How did it happen? Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2022 ISBN 9781538150313
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Dieckmann, Christoph 1960-
;
Vanagaitė, Rūta 1955-
;
Litauen
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Geschichte 1941-1944
;
Gespräch
Author information:
Dieckmann, Christoph 1960-
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