Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1999) 278-299
Keywords:
Fleischel, Günther
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Fleischel (b. 1903 in Berlin), who grew up as a Protestant and converted to Catholicism in 1919, discovered only in 1936 that both his parents were Jewish (they converted in 1897). He then tried to resign from his membership in Nazi organizations, including the SA, but concealed his Jewish descent from his employer and associates and tried to ignore it himself. This denial led him to flout the Nuremberg sexual laws and, when his identity came to light, he was imprisoned for "Blutschande". In December 1941 he was deported with a transport from Hannover to the Riga ghetto. There the SS commander appointed him head of the Hannover, and later, also, of the Hamburg and Vienna transports. Because of his flair for organization, he obtained some benefits for the Jews; but he remained at a distance from them and terrorized them by his relentless enforcement of SS rules. He died of cancer in 1943.
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