Letters

Following is a sampling of Prof. Ezergailis's correspondence regarding representation of the Holocaust in Latvia, including a letter to a publisher, an open letter, and a review and exchange with a fellow scholar.

• 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.
• 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 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.
• Soviet Muddlers of the Nazi Crime Issue — Ezergailis details the Soviets' anti-Latvian campaign of lies, confirmed by Soviet defector.
• What Stalin Knew — Ezergailis hopes recently released KGB documents hold clues to what Stalin knew about the Holocaust occurring in the eastern European territories previously occupied by the USSR.
• Anton Weiss-Wendt, Murder Without Hatred (2009) — Ezergailis reflects on his relationship with Anton Weiss-Wendt and examines Weiss-Wendt's 2009 book, Murder Without Hatred, Estonians and the Holocaust. Weiss-Wendt responds to Ezergailis's review; Ezergailis responds in turn.