Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
23,2 (2009) 239-262
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
A wartime and immediate postwar story of Jack (Jakob) Reimer, an ethnic German born in Soviet Ukraine. The son of a de-kulakized Ukrainian German peasant, he was conscripted to the Red Army, captured by the Germans, and in 1942, as a "Volksdeutsche", he volunteered as an SS auxiliary. A graduate of the training center at Trawniki, Poland, he took part in various Nazi anti-Jewish actions, including the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. After the war Reimer concealed his former service with the Nazis and emigrated to the USA. In the 1980s, in the course of the investigation of John Demjanjuk, Reimer's past was revealed. Argues that, for an ethnic German perpetrator, participation in the Holocaust served as a vehicle for negotiating Eastern Europe's dangerous wartime multiethnic milieu.
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