Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
דפים לחקר השואה
Angaben zur Quelle:
כב (תשסח) 239-264
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
Abstract:
Examining the Soviet partisan movement's intelligence reports from 1941-45, shows that the partisan intelligence service did deal with the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the USSR and Eastern Europe. The reporting period comprised August 1941-May 1945; the area covered by the reports included Soviet territories, as well as Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania; the reports contained information on mass murders, ghettos, and camps; they were immediate and consecutive; their sources were diverse (secret agents, survivors' accounts, interrogations of perpetrators, etc.); and the consumers of these reports were the highest echelons of the party and the NKVD, and maybe Stalin himself. The partisan reports succeeded to inform the Soviet leadership unequivocally that the mass murder of Soviet Jews was in fact genocide. Therefore, the Soviet leaders knew about the Holocaust, sometimes concurrently with the killings. The leadership did not neglect the Nazi murder of Jews, but also did not give it priority, either in its decision-making or in its public declarations and propaganda material.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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