Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,1 (2004) 5-22
Schlagwort(e):
Jews History 1939-1945
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Jews
Kurzfassung:
During the "Fabrikaktion" of February 1943, when most of the remaining Jews in the Reich were deported, the Gestapo also seized Jewish partners of mixed marriages and interned them in the Rosenstrasse in Berlin. Their wives and children demonstrated in front of the building and, in the course of the week, all the detainees were released. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of this event, and Margarethe von Trotta's film about it, the media celebrated this heroic and protest, only grudgingly admitting that historians now believe that the SS never intended to deport these "privileged" Jews. The sources show that they were selected for work in Jewish communal institutions in place of non-privileged Jewish employees who could then be deported. There is no debate on this subject among serious historians, only between popularizers and historians. The fact that the action was needless does not, however, diminish appreciation for the courage of these women.
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