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The Lithuanian Holocaust. Murderers, heroes, and victims

The Lithuanian Holocaust. Murderers, heroes, and victims With Prit Buttar Part of Eastern Front Week (5) on WW2TV    • Eastern Front Week   95% of Lithuania's more than 200,000 Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust. Why did this small Baltic state prove to be the most efficient killing field of all? In today's show, Prit Buttar we look at the perpetrators of the "Holocaust by bullets" and cleansing of ghettos in Lithuania during and after Barbarossa. There are also some inspirational stories of brave individuals who aided Jews and resisted the Third Reich. Unlike the figures at the top of the Nazi hierarchy, the men who were responsible for these killings have been largely forgotten. Karl Jäger was a senior SS figure who was in charge of the units that carried out most of them. He complained that his experiences caused him to suffer nightmares but continued to order his units to carry on and refused offers of sick leave on the grounds that he regarded it as his duty to remain in his post. He took refuge in compiling painstakingly detailed reports of the killings, listing the numbers executed at every location and breaking them down into men, women and children. The roles played by other figures, from Himmler and Heydrich at the summit, through the ranks of men down to Martin Weiss and Bruno Kittel who were personally responsible for carrying out Nazi policies, are all described. Before the German invasion of Lithuania, two diplomats – Chiune Sugihara from Japan and Jan Zwartendijk from the Netherlands – recognised the great danger that lay ahead for the Jews of the Baltic region and did what they could to help them escape. Karl Plagge, a major in the army, did all he could to save Jews. What perhaps make the terrible story of the Baltic genocide unique is that the Nazi regime was able to rely upon collaboration by convincing the populace that the Soviet invasion of the area was the responsibility of the Jews. Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He now lives in Kirkcudbright in Scotland. He is extensively involved in medical politics, at both local and national level, and served on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Prit Buttar UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978139... USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97813981... You can become a Patron here   / ww1tv   Please click subscribe for updates Social Media links -   / ww1tvchannel