Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Historiae Oeconomicae
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (1994) 157-166
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
States that in defiance of international military laws the Nazi occupiers of Poland imposed wide penal contributions (in money and goods) on the Polish and Jewish populations. Contributions were levied on a considerably larger scale from the Jews. Compares the reasons given by the Nazis for imposing contributions on Poles and on Jews, and the methods of their collection. In the case of the Jews, there were numerous feigned pretexts. Contribution became one of the means of indirect extermination, leading the Jewish population to the brink of "economic death." The Nazi authorities in each place decided on the manner in which the contributions were to be paid; often, the Judenrat was responsible for collection. Of the thousands of individual and collective cases in which this form of repression was used, only a fraction of one percent are documented.
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