Scherwitz: Der jüdische SS-Offizier, Anita Kugler (Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2004), 758 pp., €29.90
The case of Scherwitz is “extraordinary,” writes Anita Kugler in this fascinating biographical study of the life and times of Fritz Scherwitz, a police and SS official in occupied Latvia who presented himself after the war as a Jewish survivor of the Riga concentration camp. Kugler is intrigued by t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 508-510 |
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| Summary: | The case of Scherwitz is “extraordinary,” writes Anita Kugler in this fascinating biographical study of the life and times of Fritz Scherwitz, a police and SS official in occupied Latvia who presented himself after the war as a Jewish survivor of the Riga concentration camp. Kugler is intrigued by this individual who repeatedly reinvented himself. A journalist and historian with strong ties to the Baltics, Kugler begins with the arrest of a “Dr. Eleke Scherwitz” on April 26, 1948, on charges of war crimes. At that time, Scherwitz was serving as one of five regional directors for the Support of Victims of National Socialism. The prosecuting attorney portrayed him as a very different person—not Dr. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl026 |