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This page gathers a sampling of correspondence, letters on, and reviews of Holocaust scholarship. These include links to content in other sections of this website.
- Letters, Essays, Reviews, INTRODUCTION
- Exchange with Anton Weiss-Wendt — Prof. Ezergailis reflects on his first exchanges with Anton Weiss-Wendt and reviews and observes on Weiss-Wendt's 2009 opus Murder Without Hatred, Estonians and the Holocaust. Weiss-Wendt responds to Ezergailis' points, and Ezergailis closes with observations on perception, language, and collaboration. As a touchstone to the exchange, both acknowledge the massacre at the Lietukis garage in Kovno as a defining event of the Holocaust in the Baltics, but from different perspectives.
- A Letter to German Journalists: Between Judgment and Complexity — Ezergailis identifies the “six formidable renderings of the truth of the Holocaust,” Hitler's among them, none the same—a web of complexity which needs to be unraveled to fully understand the Holocaust.
- A Letter to The Nation's Editors — Mark Ames' piece of May 23, 2005 in The Nation, after President Bush's pointed visit to Latvia prior to attending May 9th festivities in Moscow celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, portrays Latvia as a Nazi-sympathetic history-revising state. In his response, Ezergailis methodically discusses the myths and facts of the Holocaust, Latvians in World War II, and the Latvian Legion.
- A Question of Affinities: Shards of Nazism in the Narrative of the Kaunas Massacre — Prof. Ezergails' correspondence with Professor Richard J. Evans (Cambridge University), author of an otherwise path-breaking history of Nazi Germany, regarding Evans's invoking propagandistic accounts of the Kaunas massacre.
- Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2011) — Snyder's opus does not bring any new revelations to the peoples of Eastern Europe about the fate they suffered under the Nazis and Soviets, yet one should not underestimate or undervalue its polemical value in taking on the Hitler-Stalin conundrum.