Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (1995) 254-274
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Describes the organization and line of command of the Nazi civil government and the SS, SD, and police forces in western Belarus. The police forces, mostly men over 40 in the reserves, bore the main burden of the "pacification" of the population, including extermination of the Jews in 1942. Chronicles the first wave of mass shootings of Jews in 1941, and the second wave, aimed at their total extermination, in the summer of 1942. Mobile troops of SD, or sometimes of the Wehrmacht or police, moved in on one ghetto after another and shot most of the inhabitants. Those who hid or escaped were later hunted down by the German police and its local auxiliaries. In some ghettos there was resistance, and many Jews fled and formed partisan groups. These on occasion inflicted considerable casualties on the Germans, most spectacularly in June 1942 near Naliboki, when they wiped out most of a commando of 30 men. In 1942-43 the police launched a series of campaigns against the partisans and villagers suspected of aiding them, in which thousands, both Jews and (mainly) non-Jews, were killed.
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