Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Sozial.Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
N.F. 18,3 (2003) 35-82
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism
Abstract:
Criticizes the paucity of German research on the Final Solution in Western Europe despite the availability of abundant documentation, and contrasts German reliance on secondary sources with the scholarship of Serge Klarsfeld. In order to investigate the role of the German military government in France in the Final Solution, cites a document submitted to it in January 1941 by Theodor Dannecker, demanding that it prepare for a territorial resettlement of the Jews; a plan proposed in August 1941 by Carltheo Zeitschel, of the Political Department of the German Embassy in Paris, to "relieve" all the countries of Europe of their Jews by deporting them to the East; and documentation showing the interaction between Paris and Berlin between December 1941 and March 1942, leading up to the first deportation of 1,000 Jews to Auschwitz. Argues that the military government in France deliberately filled the French camps above capacity in order to force Berlin to consent to the deportations. Weighs the evidence on the military government's knowledge of the true destination of the Jews deported in the first half of 1942, and finds it inconclusive.
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