Language:
French
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers de la Mémoire Contemporaine
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (2008) 13-34
Keywords:
Malines (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Presents profiles of German and Flemish SS officers who were in charge of the "Aufnahme", the "reception office", at the Belgian detention camp Malines, through which 25,483 Jews were deported to Auschwitz between 1942-44. Most of the German officers, like the head of the "Aufnahme", Max Boden, were former policemen, who had joined the "Judenabteilung" of the Sipo-SD of Brussels for ideological reasons. The Flemish officers came from more varied professional backgrounds, but shared the same "idealism". They were all ardent supporters of the new order and virulent, doctrinal antisemites, and participated in the humiliation and despoilment of the Jews in Malines. Most of them profited from the war on the account of the Jews, but also on the account of the Reich. An "underworld" of the Final Solution emerged at the camp, but the SS and their accomplices acted with such little caution that most were discovered and forced to resign.
Note:
Includes illustrations (pp. 30-34).
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