Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
50,10 (2002) 899-917
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
World War, 1939-1945 Collaborationists
Abstract:
Traces the events that took place in Złoczów (now Zolochiv, Ukraine) in July 1941. Before the Soviet retreat, the NKVD killed all of its Ukrainian political prisoners in the fortress and threw them into pits. The Ukrainians blamed the Jews, whom they saw as allies of the Soviets. After the German occupation, Ukrainians, together with German soldiers, carried out pogroms. Ukrainian militia and German SS men forced Jews to exhume the victims of the NKVD massacre and lay them out in rows in the fortress courtyard. During this operation, Jews were beaten to death. The massacre of Jews in the courtyard continued for several days, with several thousand victims, while Wehrmacht soldiers looked on; some of them participated. Only belatedly their officers stopped the massacre. Emphasizes that photographs of corpses in the courtyard, which have caused confusion among historians, portray two distinct events: the discovery of the Ukrainian political prisoners murdered some days previously by the NKVD, and the subsequent massacre of Jews by Ukrainian militia and the SS.
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