Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
49 (2004) 3-21
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
In January 1945, 6,500-7,000 female prisoners, mostly Jewish, from the Königsberg sub-camp of Stutthof were sent on a death march westward. Ca. 3,000 died or were killed on the way, while the rest were shot at the seashore near Palmnicken; only a handful survived. Reconstructs the history of this massacre. The last commandant of the sub-camp, Fritz Weber, was mainly responsible for the crime, but many others, including local inhabitants, took part in the massacre. In the German collective memory, East Prussia is connected with the fate of German civilians who were expelled by the Soviets in 1945 and with other Soviet atrocities; now it is connected also with a massacre, among the perpetrators of which were many of those Germans who were later expelled.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/49.1.3
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