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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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 