Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
171 (2004) 153-160
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
Abstract:
A number of officers at Wehrmacht headquarters attempted as early as fall 1939 to further a plot against Hitler by disseminating among commanders reports on SS atrocities against Poles and Jews in occupied Poland. These reports aroused revulsion, especially among the older officers, but Brauschitz, the commander-in-chief, decided to avoid a confrontation with Himmler. The "criminal order" before the ideological war against the Soviet Union, to kill Bolshevist commissars and Jews, already aroused less protest. But many of the officers involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler were motivated by what they had seen of the massacres of Jews on the eastern front.
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