Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
43 (1998) 241-269
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
Based on documents in the newly opened Osobyi Archives in Moscow, shows how the SD, through its "Judenreferat" ("Jewish desk"), had full control over "the solution to the Jewish question" in Germany in the 1930s. In 1934 the SD had the most radical solution: the emigration of all Jews from Germany. According to SD doctrine, Zionist organizations were to be treated with preference over assimilationist Jewish groups, because the former promoted Jewish emigration. In 1935 the SD participated in the preparation of the Nuremberg Laws, and in 1937 it initiated the purge of Jewish organizations in Germany of their foreign functionaries. Dwells on the SD's failed attempts to reach an agreement with the Zionists concerning Jewish emigration from Germany to Palestine and on the secret mission of Feivel Polkes to Germany in 1937. The "Kristallnacht" pogrom marked the SD's rise to the position of the leading authority on the "Jewish question"; its program of expulsion was supported by Hitler. During the war the SD changed its expulsion program to one of mass murder.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" I (2004).
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/43.1.241
URL:
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