Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18 (1987) 163-198
Keywords:
Pétain, Henri Philippe
;
Antonescu, Ion,
;
Horthy, Miklos,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Compares the implementation of the German extermination policy in three "client states" of Nazi Germany: France, Romania, and Hungary. Analyzes each country from the point of view of three factors which determined the fate of the Jewish population: the German factor, the national factor, and the indigenous Jewish factor. Examines the policies of each government as represented by Laval, Horthy, Kallay, and Antonescu in regard to the deportation of Jews. In France, large-scale deportations began in August 1942 (mainly of foreign Jews), but slowed in 1943; in Romania, no Jews were deported to the camps in Poland; and in Hungary, the deportations began only after the German occupation. The reasons for consent or resistance to deportations are not always clear, but it is evident that the fate of the Jews formed part of an intricate system of foreign policy and bilateral relations with Germany. Thus, the responsibility for the fate of the Jews falls on the national governments, but this does not detract from the overall German responsibility for the Holocaust.
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