Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,3 (2008) 389-416
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Notes ordinary Lithuanians' hostility to the new view increasingly supported by Lithuanian historians: that three cherished institutions and events - the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF), the June 1941 uprising against the Soviets, and the subsequent "independent" Lithuanian provisional government - were deeply involved in the Holocaust. These historians found that the LAF, which inspired the uprising, disseminated propaganda branding the Jews as mainstays of the Soviet occupation, and demanded their expulsion. Masses of Lithuanians took part in the ensuing pogroms. The Provisional Government, dominated by members of the LAF, while doing little or nothing to stop the pogroms, passed antisemitic laws. Now, most Lithuanian historians disavow the still popular myth of the "double genocide" - the so-called "genocide" of Lithuanians by the Jewish-communist occupation regime and, in retaliation, Lithuanian participation in the genocide of the Jews. Points to similarities between the historical debate in Lithuania and that in Poland.
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