Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Contemporary European History
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,2 (1993) 119-148
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Pogroms
;
Jews
Abstract:
Analyzes the preparation for and perpetration of the Iaşi pogrom of 29-30 June 1941, which resulted in the murder of more than 8,000 Jews. States that the pogrom was part of a long series of persecution and murder of Jews by Romanian fascists bent on resolving the "Jewish problem". Argues that the pogrom was instigated by the Romanian Special Information Service (SSI) which, with the Army's Supreme Headquarters' connivance, armed and instructed members of the officially banned Iron Guard to kill the Jews on the charge of alleged collaboration with the communists and the Soviet Union. Describes how the Jews were herded together and killed or deported, and their property looted, by Guard members and the local population, by Romanian soldiers, policemen, and gendarmes, and, sporadically, by Germans from the SS, Wehrmacht, and the Todt organization present in Iaşi at that time, all following a clear Romanian policy of liquidation of the Jewish population.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" III (2004).
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