Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
S: I. M. O. N.
Angaben zur Quelle:
8,2 (2021) 13-37
Keywords:
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Police
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)
Abstract:
The article analyses the role members of the Czech Protectorate gendarmerie played in thepersecution of the Jews during the Second World War. A Special gendarmerie unit guardedTheresienstadt, the only major Jewish ghetto created during the war in the occupied Bohemian lands. Whilst some of the gendarmes supported Jewish prisoners and tried to alleviatetheir plight, others collaborated with the SS unit – in charge of the ghetto, behaved brutallyor denounced prisoners for any transgressions of the ghetto laws. Most of the gendarmerieunit vacillated between both extremes and remained passive observers to the events. Thearticle centres on both extremes of support and betrayal, and asks what they can reveal aboutthe wartime service of the gendarmes in the ghetto and their role in the persecution of theProtectorate Jews, as well as those deported to the ghetto from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and other territories.
DOI:
10.23777/SN.0221/ART_JLAN01
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