Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941–1942
This contribution shows that during the invasion of the Soviet Union the Wehrmacht was systematically involved in the realization of the Holocaust. Its regional and field commands in the summer of 1941 erected the first ghettos and robbed the Jews of their possessions, their rights, and their dignit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1997
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-101 |
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| Summary: | This contribution shows that during the invasion of the Soviet Union the Wehrmacht was systematically involved in the realization of the Holocaust. Its regional and field commands in the summer of 1941 erected the first ghettos and robbed the Jews of their possessions, their rights, and their dignity as humans. Units of the Wehrmacht concentrated Jews from the villages and shot them. The author advances evidence that during the first wave of ghetto liquidations in October–November 1941, German soldiers served as willing executioners in the provincial towns of that part of Belorussia under civil administration. All these murderous actions were foreshadowed in the slogan propagandized from the beginning of the campaign, “The Jew is the Partisan, and the Partisan is the Jew.” |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/11.1.79 |