Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,11 (2004) 1017-1034
Schlagwort(e):
Schmid, Anton,
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Plagge, Karl,
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Schönbrunner, Oskar
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Kurzfassung:
Based on a paper delivered (in English) at a conference held in Vilnius, September 2002. States that a severe shortage of skilled manpower made it necessary for the German occupation forces in the Baltic to employ Jews in the maintenance of equipment and to meet other needs of the occupation. The Jews were paid starvation wages, but they and their families obtained documents making them relatively safe from deportation. Among the Wehrmacht officers in charge of workshops in Vilnius, three were exceptional in that they responded to pleas for help from their Jewish workers: Karl Plagge, Oskar Schönbrunner, and Anton Schmid. They tried to save their workers from mistreatment and intervened when they were arrested and slated for execution. Schmid himself was executed for organizing a convoy of Jews out of Vilnius to places that seemed safer. Schönbrunner and Plagge were more cautious and repeatedly negotiated successfully with the SS. At the end, when the SS exterminated the remaining Jews of Vilnius before retreating, Plagge warned his workers, enabling them to go into hiding. Most were caught, but 150-200 survived. Yad Vashem recognized Schmid and Schönbrunner as Righteous Gentiles; Plagge was being considered at the time of writing.
Anmerkung:
An English version appeared as "Into the grey zone: Wehrmacht bystanders, German labor market policy and the Holocaust" in "Journal of Genocide Research" 10,3 (2008) 389-411.
DOI:
10.1080/14623520802305743
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