Language:
French
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Le Débat; histoire, politique, société
Angaben zur Quelle:
158 (2010) 108-117
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
Argues that Auschwitz as a symbol of the Holocaust warps our understanding of it, since it excludes those who were its foremost victims: the Jews of Eastern Europe. An adequate vision of the Holocaust would place Operation Reinhardt, the murder of the Polish Jews in 1942, at the center of its history. 1.5 million Jews were exterminated at Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibor, and there were few survivors. Another million Polish Jews were killed in other ways, some at Chełmno, Majdanek, or Auschwitz; many more were shot in actions in the eastern half of the country. As many, if not more, Jews were killed by bullets as by gas, but they were killed in eastern locations whose memory was blurred in Soviet historiography. Yet even a corrected image of the Holocaust conveys an incomplete sense of the scope of German mass killing policies in Europe. Hitler's Generalplan Ost foresaw the elimination of 50 million Soviets. Completes the picture of atrocity in mid-century European history by discussing Stalin's mass killings. Also discusses how Eastern European countries have since related to their own suffering during World War II.
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