Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,3 (2008) 222-248
Keywords:
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
States that in the fall of 1944 a number of concentration camps were reorganized in a process of rationalization, among them the women's camp Ravensbrück. Gives details on the SS personnel involved. The camp was flooded at this time with newcomers, mainly Poles, Hungarian Jews, and evacuees from camps further east. Apparently on orders from above, but also because the camp command (who had been joined by Rudolf Höss and other personnel experienced in mass killing in other camps) urgently needed to reduce the overcrowding, thousands of women were murdered every month, from September 1944 by shooting, from January 1945 by gassing. The victims were selected not on the basis of race but because of their unfitness for labor or, toward the evacuation in April 1945, for keeping up with the planned march. "Only" about a third of them were Jewish.
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