Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Remembering for the Future; the Holocaust in an Age of Genocide
Angaben zur Quelle:
I (2001) 355-370
Keywords:
Stalin, Joseph,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the responses of Stalin and the Soviet leadership to the Holocaust based on statements made by Stalin, notes sent by Foreign Minister Molotov to the Allies, and the Soviet press (which expressed the leadership’s views). Shows that, throughout the war, information on Nazi atrocities against Jews was suppressed in the USSR. Stalin mentioned the Jews only once, in a historical context, in a speech in 1941. Molotov mentioned Jews occasionally in his notes, but only as one of many suffering nationalities, blurring the uniqueness of the tragic Jewish fate. Soviet authorities continually referred to murders of Soviet citizens, hardly ever mentioning Jews. Soviet partisan groups, under orders of the Soviet leadership, were never given instructions to help Jews. Contends that Hitler’s 1941 accusations against the "Jewish-Bolshevik rulers of Moscow" contributed to Soviet attempts to blur the antisemitic line in Nazi propaganda, to minimize references to the murder of Jews, and to emphasize Nazi aggression against Russians and other Slavic nations.
Note:
Appeared also in Russian as "Отношение советского руководства к Холокосту" in "Вестник Еврейского университета" 9 (1995) 4-35.
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