Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
50,1 (2002) 55-71
Keywords:
Baeck, Leo,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Examines for whom Baeck and his co-authors intended a five-volume work on the legal status of Jews from antiquity to 1930. A copy of this work was saved by Baeck himself; two more have been found, one apparently from the archives of the Reichsvereinigung and one from those of the SS. Baeck declared, after the war, that he had written it for the resistance and in order to contribute to understanding for the Jews in postwar Germany. But recently discovered protocols of meetings of representatives of the Reichsvereinigung with Friedrich Suhr, of Eichmann's Office for Jewish Affairs, show that the work was commissioned by this office in March 1942 and delivered in October. Suhr's motive, of which Baeck was undoubtedly ignorant, may have been to ascertain whether it was legally possible to deport Jews from satellite states. Baeck was indeed in contact with the resistance through the Bosch circle in Stuttgart and through Goerdeler, who visited him several times at his home. Expresses astonishment at this tie, since Goerdeler in his memorandum "Das Ziel" (1941) called for severe curtailment of Jewish rights. In any case, the writing of a scholarly work showing a minimum of compromise with SS requirements was in itself an act of spiritual resistance.
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