Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 318-337
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
The deportation of Slovak Jews was halted in fall 1942, after ca. two thirds of the Jews had been deported, even though many in the regime continued to see in them the enemy of the people and to press for the completion of the deportations. Discusses the reasons for the halt: Germany's military reverses and fear of the judgment of the free world; interventions by the Catholic Church; the Jews' importance to the economy; the cheap labor of Jews in the labor camps; the bribes of the clandestine Jewish Working Group; and moral scruples after information on the fate of the deported Jews seeped through, though many refused to believe it. In 1942 the Germans exerted increasing pressure to resume the deportations, but the Slovaks did not give in. When the Germans occupied Slovakia in fall 1944, they deported another 12,000 Jews.
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