Langley-Adams Library (Groveland)

How did it happen?, understanding the Holocaust, Christoph Dieckmann and Rūta Vanagaitė

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

How did it happen?

bibliography

1255173775

Christoph Dieckmann and Rūta Vanagaitė

understanding the Holocaust

"In this compelling book, Rūta Vanagaitė holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann, the author of one of the most influential books on the Holocaust. Her searching exchanges with Dieckmann illuminate the most profound questions we have as we struggle to understand the Holocaust"--, Provided by publisher

Prologue / by Ruta Vanagaite -- Why this book? -- People had a choice -- Germany's trauma -- Lithuania's trauma -- The Jew is the devil -- Small and radical -- Plans for mass murder -- "Blitzkrieg" : local helpers needed! -- Lithuania's dream of independence -- An easy occupation -- Controversies of the uprising -- Enter the SS -- Jews in panic -- Lithuanian border strip : the first shootings -- Pogroms -- The first mass shooting of Jews in Kaunas -- The road to Ponar -- Vigilante Lithuanian courts -- Ghettoization in the provinces -- Robbing the living -- Lithuanian fascists take over -- "Kill them all" -- The "final solution" in the provinces -- The oral orders -- The Lithuanian road killers -- 100,000 trapped city Jews -- Life in the ghettos : hunger, poetry, death -- Choiceless choices -- The accidental death of European Jews -- Forgotten victims : prisoners of war -- Forgotten victims : Soviet evacuees -- Slavery -- No to the SS legion -- To die as free fighters -- The Jewish partisans : survival and terror -- The end : Vilnius -- The end : Šiauliai -- The end : Kaunas -- The murdered "others" -- Burning the bodies -- To save a Jew -- The silence of the church -- The brief story of Lithuanian resistance