{"product_id":"how-did-it-happen-understanding-the-holocaust-paperback","title":"How Did It Happen?: Understanding the Holocaust - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristoph Dieckmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRuta Vanagaite\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of the \u003cbr\u003eHolocaust in Lithuania provides the first overview for general readers that considers the perspectives of all the central groups involved--Jews, Lithuanians, and Germans. Drawing on a rich array of sources in all the key languages--Yiddish, Ivrit, Lithuanian, and German--Dieckmann considers not only the Berlin-based orientation of the German perpetrators but also the space where the Shoah took place--Lithuanian society with its Jewish minority under German occupation. He contends that this \"space\" of mass crimes is always linked with warfare and occupation. The Holocaust was unprecedented, but he makes a powerful case it cannot be isolated from the other mass crimes that took place at the same time in the same space against thousands of Soviet prisoners of war and forced refugees from the Soviet territories.\u003cbr\u003eDieckmann shows that the Holocaust could not have unfolded throughout German-dominated Europe without the conditional cooperation of non-Germans in each occupied country. Existing antisemitism was radicalized from the 1930s onward, turning Jews, under the enormous stress of unrelenting warfare and often instable conditions of occupation, into what were perceived as deadly enemies. The Holocaust, its history and memory, can only be understood through this broader context. The authors' searching exchanges illuminate the most profound questions we have as we struggle to understand the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristoph Dieckmann is a German historian who hdirects a sound-history study, Sounds of Anti-Jewish Persecution, at the University of Bern. His book Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944 (German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944) was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuta Vanagaiteis a Lithuanian writer and journalist. Her books include Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust, coauthored with Efraim Zuroff.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 412\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50349797343469,"sku":"9781538189283","price":46.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/Kg6lbIjRBz9781538189283.webp?v=1785264172","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/how-did-it-happen-understanding-the-holocaust-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}