![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing upon diaries and memoirs, he bares the face of the human beings whose souls came under assault. In addition to the macrocosm, however, he sounds the depths of the human dimension as no other. No one provides a more thoroughly researched view of history than Gilbert. If, for example, the killing units went into operation with the invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, it was, in part, because the situation in Europe was well in hand if, however, a survivor recalls that in the Kovno Ghetto “before our eyes our children fell,” as Sir Martin relates, 2 it is irrelevant to history. Some historians claim that when writing Holocaust history one must never use the diaries or the memoirs of the victims because they could not see the “big picture.” These chroniclers view history from an overarching God’s-eye perspective. Edinburgh Scotland, 5-7 October 2023 More Join us for the 40th International Churchill Conference. ![]()
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