Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,3 (1995) 318-345
Keywords:
Chelmno (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
Abstract:
The Nazi leadership originally intended to implement the mass murder of the Jews only when the war was over, which was expected to be in October 1941. However, Hitler ordered deportations from Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and the western part of Germany on 17 September 1941, when the war was still going on. Examines the factors that made Hitler change his mind: considerations of security, stressed by Heydrich; lack of housing in large cities, caused by increased bombings; victories achieved by the Wehrmacht in the East in September 1941; proposals to clear Western Europe (France, first of all) of Central European Jews, concentrated in internment camps. The deportations of Jews from the Reich began in October 1941; the first deportees were sent to the Łódź ghetto. Discusses, also, the decision in April 1942 to murder these resettled Jews in Chełmno.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" III (2004). Appeared in German as "Deportationen ins Ghetto Litzmannstadt und Vernichtung in Chełmno: zwei Etappen des Entscheidungsprozesses in der 'Endlösung der Judenfrage'" in "Akce Nisko v historii 'konecného reseni zidovské otázky'" (1995) 148-159, and as "Zwei Entscheidungen in der 'Endlösung der Judenfrage': Deportationen nach Łódź und Vernichtung in Chełmno" in "Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente" (1995) 38-68.
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