One of my goals as a future historian is to be an expert on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. As a result, I’m already better read than most people on the latter topic, while on the former topic, I’m probably at the level of an interested history buff. After having read most of the single-volume …
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Lithuanian Coup of 1941
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 …
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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A Podcast About Holocaust Denial
I’ve been incommunicado at this blog for some time, since I’ve not been enrolled in a history course this term. (Instead, I’ve been fulfilling a core requirement in Interdisciplinary Studies — a course on wellness, which is surprisingly interesting.) However, I gave an interview a couple of months ago to Matthew Buckley of Adelaide, Australia, …
Balancing Act: Bombing the Auschwitz Rail Lines
The inherent conflict between the strategic and humanitarian concerns of the Allies as the war drew to a close is perhaps best symbolized by certain aspects of the Holocaust. One of the major ethical debates that has arise out of the Holocaust is the decision by the Allied forces not to bomb the rail lines …
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Perkonkrusts and the Final Solution in Latvia
Andrew Ezergailis, the author of what remains the standard work in English on the Final Solution in Latvia, gave his book the subtitle The Missing Center.[1] He chose this subtitle to represent what he felt was a noticeable absence in the discussion of collaboration by Latvians with Nazis. On the one hand, Ezergailis argued, some …
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Effects of the Holocaust
For this week’s assignment, I chose to write about a topic with which I’m very familiar, the Holocust. For years, I’ve conducted independent research on the topic and have published a fair amount of material. I think it’s therefore safe to say that the Holocaust had extensive politics effects on Europe and the rest of …
Agenda for February and March
Through a variety of approaches, including CLEP (American History II), AP credit from high school (American History I), a course transferred from a local community college (World History II), and three courses online at SNHU (World History I, Modern War and Society, and Making History), I have completed half of the courses in the history …
On Atrocities
Armesto-Fernandez refers to the 20th century as a “century of atrocities” for quite literal reasons, with the author tying the term directly to the two major world wars fought over the course of the century. Certainly, if we examine the century chronologically, we can see that there was an uncommon amount and level of violence …
Inevitable Historicity 