Archiv für Mai 2013

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Who Killed Lida’s Jewish Intelligentsia? A Case Study of Wehrmacht Involvement in the Holocaust’s „First Hour“

An investigation of the liquidation of Lida’s Jewish intelligentsia reveals that front-line Wehrmacht troops, and not the Einsatzgruppen normally associated with such actions, were responsible. This finding regarding the first week of the war challeng…

History and Memory: The Orthodox Experience in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp

In recent research on displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, Jewish self-governance, embedded in the trope of a general Jewish rebirth, has emerged as the central narrative theme. This article makes the case that Jewish governance in the Bergen-…

The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945, edited by Otto Dov Kulka and Eberhard Jackel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), civ + 959 pp., CD-ROM, hardcover, $150.00

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Raphael Lemkin, Cultural Destruction, and the Armenian Genocide

Using an interdisciplinary, cultural studies approach, this article explores Raphael Lemkin’s often overlooked concept of cultural destruction in the case of the Armenian Genocide. Lemkin’s thinking was significantly shaped by the Armenian Genocide, a…

Calculated Indifference: The Soviet Union and Requests to Bomb Auschwitz

In the ongoing debate about whether the Allies should have bombed the Auschwitz extermination camp, the Soviet Union is rarely mentioned. Focusing on four operational challenges—accuracy, range, time, and intelligence—the authors compare B…

Vapniarka: The Archive of the International Tracing Service and the Holocaust in the East

Most scholars familiar with the vast holdings that constitute the International Tracing Service archives have assumed that these were helpful primarily for the study of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Western and Central Europe. The author of the f…

Lettland unter deutscher Besatzung 1941-1944: Der lettische Anteil am Holocaust, Katrin Reichelt (Berlin: Metropol, 2011), 428 pp., paperback, {euro}24.00.

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Erik J Zurcher, The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From Ottoman Empire to Ataturk’s Turkey

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