Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Nota Bene; литературно-публицистический журнал
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2006) 261-277
Keywords:
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
In early 1940 Yevgenii Chekmenyov, the head of the Board for the Relocation of Populations in the Soviet government, received two letters from Eichmann's bureaus in Berlin and Vienna proposing to the Soviets to resettle Jews from the Nazi domain to the USSR. Chekmenyov believed that the German proposal must be rejected and asked the Foreign Affairs Commissariat to confirm this. Thus, the USSR thwarted one of the opportunities to rescue German and Polish Jews. Focuses on the circumstances of this abortive agreement: the Nazi policy of forced emigration from the time of the Anschluss in Austria to 1940 (including the Nisko plan and Madagascar project), and the Soviet attempts to establish a Jewish territorial unit in the USSR, as well as the population exchanges between Germany and the USSR. Stresses that 150,000 Polish Jewish refugees constituted a social problem for the USSR - these Jews could not be used as a work force in the Soviet East. Thus, the Soviets were guided by purely pragmatic considerations in their refusal to scrutinize the German proposal.
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