While the Holocaust in Lithuania is a topic that has been covered extensively in the historical literature, one related event that occurred as this tragedy unfolded, i.e., the attempted coup against the Lithuanian Provisional Government (PG) in late July 1941, has received comparatively little attention. For those scholars who have examined the coup, the explanation …
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Historiography of the Holocaust in Lithuania
There are essentially three trajectories in the historiography of the Holocaust in Lithuania that characterize the writing about the topic over the past seventy years: the transition from intentionalism to functionalism; the increasing availability of archival documents; and the issue of Lithuanian guilt. Our understanding of the Holocaust at large is one that has been …
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Inevitable Historicity 