Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,3 (2008) 197-221
Keywords:
Kehrer, Walter
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Warsaw (Poland) History Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
Abstract:
Traces the career of Kehrer (1912-1992). Born in Helenendorf, a German settlement in the Caucasus, he fled the Soviet Union to Germany in 1930 with a burning hatred of the communists. In preparation for the German invasion of the USSR, he was attached to Einsatzgruppe D, formally as an interpreter; but on his own initiative, he officiated at massacres of Jews in the southern USSR. In the spring of 1942 he became commander of the newly formed Kaukasier-Kompanie, made up of volunteers from the Caucasus who took this way to win their release from prisoner-of-war camps. Between 1942-43, this company carried out massacres of Jews in the whole of the German-occupied part of the Caucasus; in 1943-44, stationed in Lemberg, it participated in the liquidation of labor camps along Durchgangstrasse IV, in the "Erntefest" massacres of labor camp prisoners in the Lublin district, and in the liquidation of the Janowskastrasse concentration camp in Lemberg. Kehrer was put on trial only in the 1970s and served a prison sentence from 1975-79.
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