Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (1986) 181-218
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Questions the accepted version of the rescue of Danish Jewry according to which Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a Nazi agent with contacts among Danish Social Democrats (who believed him to be anti-Nazi) and a close associate of Werner Best, the German plenipotentiary, took the initiative in warning the Danish Jews. According to Duckwitz's account, he informed his Social Democrat friends and the Danish Foreign Office of the plan. Casts doubt on the reliability of Duckwitz's dates and figures, suggesting, on the basis of German archives, that the deportation was deliberately aborted on Eichmann's instructions because of a shortage of police forces to deal with the Danish resistance. Thus, Best himself instructed Duckwitz to pass on the warning and to ensure that Sweden would accept the Jews. Surveys the historiographical literature which accepts the tendentious Best-Duckwitz version, showing that it does not reflect the true political situation in Denmark.
Description / Table of Contents:
Kirchhoff, Hans. SS-Gruppenführer Werner Best and the action against the Danish Jews - October 1943. [A response to the above.] Yad Vashem Studies 24 (1994) 195-222. The response also appeared in Hebrew: "Yad Vashem" 24 (1995).
Note:
In Hebrew: "Yad Vashem" 17-18 (1987). A Danish version appeared in "Rambam; tidsskrift for jødisk kultur og forskning" 2 (1993).
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