Language:
German
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
10 (2001) 239-264
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
In Kamenets-Podolskii (Western Ukraine), 23,600 Jews, most of them deported by Hungary, others residents of the town, were massacred. Argues that, contrary to statements of other historians assigning responsibility to the RSHA through its Einsatzgruppen, the massacre was carried out on the orders of the Police and SS Chief of the southern section of the rear, Friedrich Jeckeln, in full agreement with the Wehrmacht commander, Karl von Roques. Von Roques, like all the commanders in the area, shared the antisemitism of the national-conservative German elite. The army was worried by the problem of feeding the Hungarian deportees; Jews were expendable, so practical and ideological factors came together. The massacre was carried out by Jeckeln's staff, which was already experienced in the killing of Jews, and by Police Batallion 320, for which this was the first time. The police commander announced that no-one would be forced to participate, but only one man refused. This batallion went on to carry out massacres elsewhere.
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