Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 300-317
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
In 1940 the German Foreign Office sent Dieter Wisliceny to Slovakia as adviser on the "Jewish question". Already in 1939 Slovakia had begun expropriating Jewish businesses. Wisliceny worked with the Slovak Central Economic Office to systematize and speed up Aryanization. When the empoverished Jews became a burden on society, he reasoned, the Slovaks would readily agree to their deportation. As a first step, about half the Jews of Bratislava (all who did not possess exemptions) were deported to Slovak labor camps, which the Jewish Central Office had been made to set up. Deportations to Poland began in March 1942 but were halted in October, partly thanks to the clandestine Working Group which bribed Wisliceny and other officials, partly perhaps because by then all the empoverished Jews had already been deported and the Slovaks' main motive for the deportations, the economic, had ceased to exist. Quotes a letter by Gisi Fleischmann to A. Silberschein in Geneva, which in July 1942 gave the West the first indication of the extermination of the deported Jews.
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