Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2002) 137-177
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
States that the "Fabrik-Aktion", often thought to have affected only Jews employed in forced labor in factories in Berlin, actually took place simultaneously throughout Germany, and that Jews were seized not only in factories, but also at home or in the street. This was to be the final step in cleansing Germany of Jews, with the exception of those living in mixed marriages, who were to be removed from the factories in order to be assigned later to hard labor. While in smaller towns they were usually released at once, in Berlin they were interned in a building in the Rosenstrasse. Contends that this was for the purpose of checking their racial status and, even more important, to find among them replacements for the Jews who had run the Jewish community and hospital and who were now to be deported. Their "Aryan" wives gathered in the hundreds (but not thousands) in front of the building. But this was not a demonstration as we understand it today; nor does it prove, as often alleged, that resistance at that time could have reversed Nazi decisions, since in any case (though the women did not know it) the men were to be released.
Description / Table of Contents:
Stoltzfus, Nathan. Historical evidence and plausible history; interpreting the Berlin Gestapo's attempted "final roundup" of Jews (also known as the "factory action"). Central European History 38,3 (2005) 450-459.
Description / Table of Contents:
Gruner, Wolf. A "Historikerstreit"? A reply to Nathan Stoltzfus's response. Ibid. 460-464.
Note:
An English version appeared as "The factory action and the events at the Rosenstrasse in Berlin: facts and fictions about 27 February 1943 - sixty years later" in "Central European History" 36,2 (2003) 179-208.
DOI:
10.1163/156916103770866112
DOI:
10.1163/156916105775563616
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