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Following are Prof. Ezergailis's reviews of notable books which have garnered visibility in the area of Holocaust scholarship.
- 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.
- Anita Kugler, Scherwitz: Der jüdische SS-Offizier (2004) — Eleke Scherwitz, a Jew, was one of the first indigenous Germans to be tried and convicted for war crimes. Kugler's book attempts to extract the truth about Scherwitz’s life from the incredibly tangled, contradictory record, and ultimately seeks to rehabilitate him.
- Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, Die “Endlösung” in Riga: Ausbeutung und Vernichtung 1941-1944 (2007) — Angrick and Klein's work exhibits the dichotomy endemic to current German scholarship on the Holocaust in Latvia, fact based on the one part, but demonstrably eschewing facts for propaganda where the possibility and myth of the Germanless—spontaneous, without Nazi involvement or organization—Holocaust remains.
- Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, The “Final Solution in Riga”: Exploitation and Annihilation 1941-1944 (2009) — A brief review of Angrick and Klein's work translated from the German, highlighting a reliance on Nazi German accounts at face value where the Holocaust in Latvia is concerned—over a thousand footnotes does not mean a work cannnot still be lacking in certain aspects.
- Katrin Reichelt, Lettland unter deutscher Besatzung 1941–1944: Der lettische Anteil am Holocaust (2011) — Reichelt's Elephants: In Reichelt's world, collaboration becomes self-occupation, as if rape connotes willful participation. Polarities are reversed, the object becomes the subject, the hunted becomes the hunter. The brutalities of the Nazis become those of the Latvians; the occupier becomes the occupied—prompting a deeper look at representation of the Holocaust.
- 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.