Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica (Kraków)
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,1 (2000) 63-75
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
Presents and comments on documents relating to attacks against seven synagogues which occurred in October 1941 in Paris. The attacks were instigated by Helmut Knochen, the Nazi Chief of Police and Security Forces in Paris, who acted in collaboration with Reinhard Heydrich. General Otto von Stülpnagel, the Military Commander of France, was not informed about the Nazi involvement in these actions and was, in fact, opposed to them. In an attempt to convince French and world opinion that the resistance movement in France was communist-Jewish, Heydrich presented the attacks on the synagogues as perpetrated by French radical "enemies of the Jews", without any connection with the Nazi occupiers. Compares these attacks with the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in Germany and concludes that both actions had the same propaganda aim: to show that the "simple people" hate the Jews and demand their expulsion from the country.
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