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As I followed the public soul-searching in Germany which accompanied the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2005, I realised that the contemporary need to draw the right didactic lessons from this past had led scholars as well as the media to neglect one of the essential tasks of historical enquiry – first and above all, to understand the past.
On 18 November 1943, Captain Dr August Töpperwien noted in his diary that he had ‘heard dreadful, apparently accurate details about how we have exterminated the Jews (from infants to the aged) in Lithuania!’
