Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
28 (2000) 113-153
Keywords:
Globocnik, Odilo,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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National socialism Philosophy
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Nazi concentration camps
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Lublin Region (Poland)
Abstract:
There is a consensus amongst most historians that the Nazi German government's decision to carry out the mass murder of all Soviet Jews (men, women, and children) was taken in July-August 1941. Argues that the second decision - to murder the Jews of the "Generalgouvernement" in Poland - was taken at the end of September or beginning of October 1941; at about the same time it was decided to murder the Jews in the Warthegau. The decision was connected with a plan for Germanization of the Lublin area, a main promoter of which was Odilo Globočnik. In the fall of 1941, the Nazi leadership assessed the situation on the Eastern front as having improved, and Globočnik's plan received Hitler's approval. The construction of Bełżec - the first extermination site with stationary gas chambers - ensued, followed by the construction of Sobibór and other death camps. Argues that this decision for the mass annihilation of the Jews, taken in Lublin and approved in Berlin, was then applied not only to the Lublin area but to the whole territory of Poland.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" II (2004). An expanded German version appeared as "Ursprünge der 'Aktion Reinhardt'; Planung des Massenmordes an den Juden im Generalgouvernement" in "Aktion Reinhardt" (2004) 49-85. A Polish version appeared as "'Przypadek modelowy dotyczący eksterminacji Żydów'; początki 'akcji Reinhardt' - planowanie masowego mordu Żydów w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie" in "Akcja Reinhardt" (2004) 15-38. In Hebrew:
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"יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים " כח (תשס) 93-126
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