Language:
German
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
1999; Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,3 (1988) 9-26
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
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Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
Analyzes the function of Theresienstadt as a propaganda cover, as a transit point to Auschwitz, and as an extermination camp. By sending older Jews first to the "old age home", the Nazis could maintain the fiction that younger and able-bodied Jews were being sent East to labor camps. Changes in the rate of deportation from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz were prompted by efforts of Himmler and other Nazis to bargain with the Allies. Quotes SS reports of talks with Allen Dulles, chief of the American secret service in Europe, and his economic adviser Royal Taylor, showing that they were aware of the plan to exterminate the Jews, and that Dulles raised only pragmatic objections. Describes Red Cross delegate Dr. Rossel's enthusiastic report on the "normal life" in Theresienstadt. Discusses, also, the "Theresienstadt family camp" in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Notes that Joel Brand's mission from Hungary was part of the same deceit. These tactics of seeming negotiations of Nazis with the Allies were never allowed to interfere seriously with the pace of extermination of Jews.
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