Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 [6th series] (1992) 51-78
Keywords:
Greiser, Arthur,
;
Koppe, Wilhelm,
;
Höppner, Rolf-Heinz,
;
Lange, Herbert,
;
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Mass murder History 20th century
Abstract:
States that a study of the decision process leading to the genocide in the Warthegau (one of the three Polish areas annexed to the Reich) can throw light on the responsibility for the Final Solution. Traces the efforts of Reich Governor Arthur Greiser and SS-and-police chief Wilhelm Koppe to solve the "Jewish problem" by concentrating Jews in the Łódź ghetto and other, smaller ghettos and camps. In the fall of 1941, when more Jews were brought in from Germany and Czechoslovakia, conditions became insupportable. The solution of a quick death for Jews unfit for work was first proposed by SD chief Rolf-Heinz Höppner in July 1941. Probably late the same year, at the latest in spring 1942, Greiser and Koppe obtained permission from Himmler and Heydrich to go ahead. Hypothesizes on "a balance of probabilities" that Hitler set the tone and provided a broad sanction, but left specific measures to his subordinates. A Sonderkommando commanded by Herbert Lange set up the extermination camp at Chełmno, and began mass killings of Jews from the Łódź ghetto and the Warthegau.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" II (2004).
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