Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
31 (2003) 287-323
Keywords:
Hitler, Adolf,
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the fate of ca. 3,500 Jews in Burgenland, the first region in Austria to come under Nazi rule in March 1938, when the Austrian Nazi Tobias Portschy seized the governorship. Persecution of the Jews began immediately, and expulsion followed soon after. All Jewish property was confiscated and the Jews were sent to Vienna or to other countries, from where they were sometimes returned to Austria. By fall 1938 all the Jews had been expelled; 1,286 of them eventually managed to emigrate, while many of those who remained in Vienna were deported and killed. In an interview with the author in Austria in July 1994, Portschy insisted that he only carried out the expulsion under orders from Himmler. However, Zalmon shows that Portschy was anxious to follow those orders in order to please Hitler. The expulsion from Burgenland set a precedent for the rest of Austria and for other countries.
Note:
In 1938.
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