Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,3 (2006) 381-409
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Collaborationists
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Examines the local responses to and collaboration with the Nazi implementation of the Final Solution in Belorussia, and reflects on the motives of this collaboration. On the grass-roots level, many non-Jews approved of the isolation of Jews and their removal from society, but not necessarily their murder. On the institutional level, many administrative bodies, such as the auxiliary police, were ready to help the Nazis. Acts of collaboration ranged from denunciation to theft of property to participation in mass murder. The Belorussian collaborators in mass killings were often more brutal than the Germans, and sometimes volunteered to kill former Jewish neighbors. While in western (formerly Polish) Belorussia nationalism figured prominently in the decision to turn against the Jews, in the eastern part of the country (Sovietized Belorussia) it was more often pure opportunism that drove the people into the ranks of the perpetrators.
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