New Research on the Final Solution

Dr David Silberklang  Yad Vashem Studies    told story 8-1-41 Prippet Marshes   the final solution a developmental and slow process
change of orders   Oper Barbarossa   entd soviet union more thorough mass scale killing by 4 groups of Einsatzgruppen killing vans then 5th group added -anecdote of Jewis woman's letter to Judenrat to forward to forward to civilian authorities in Lublin permission to send for mother to care for her forwarded to population and welfare dept  (Richard Turk director) who approved permission to send for mother  ten days  3-10-42 to 3-20-42. Why so long ? ivilian administration busy coordinatng with SS in killing of Jews .Civilian adm planned and involved with the murders  coord w SS .  3-20-42 Maidanik blt near Lublin -deah train halted forced labor of young men--many civilian coordintors involved-a developing process-

Intentionalists v functionalists   Hiter decided to implement- no docs or orders ever found

Deception of the Jews  deliberate or incidental role of civilian bureaucracy

What can we glean from day to day oders of or given to field subordinates
Operation Barbarossa

• deeply imbued with ideology "destroying Bolshevism (another denomination of the Jews)
• Wehrmacht and SS negotiations
• Wehrmacht to carve out jurisdictional space  for Einsatzgruppen or murder units
• Wehrmacht logistically assisted sometimes with willing soldiers
• before units arrived locals carried out pogroms aplenty  local initiative  larger slaughters later when 5th unit and local auxiliaries were attched to these  and other units   18,000-25,000 men entered into Soviet Union  task forces were aided and made murder possible by the aid of: locals:
• local police and "neighbors"  (Nazis d have the manpower alone to do murders in number but supervised the willing locals --later witnesses to these collaborators  trials emerged after war
• auxiliry units of  batallion size  ie Ukranian auxiliaries
• When did murder go o/s Sovioet Union ? planned ? Romania- 280,000- > 400,000 Jews murdered
• Croatia -agenda-4/41 Serbs   gypsies   Jews
• Einsatzgruppe D Otto Ohlendorf
• New East discussed in Reich  Wansee discussons  no emigration evacuation  1941
• Odilo Globocnik ,Reinhard Heydrich, Wansee
• SS police colonies settlements in East
• Feasibility study by Odilo Globocnik ,Goering signed memo,
• Wansee postponed and later resumed-Jewish ? to be exterminated like partisans w/no compassion

Nazi Youth Leader Charged at Nuremberg Trial with Deporting 50,000 Jews to Death Camps

http://archive.jta.org/article/1946/05/28/2745244/nazi-youth-leader-charged-at-nuremberg-trial-with-deporting-50000-jews-to-death-camps
May 28, 1946


Nazi Youth Leader Charged at Nuremberg Trial with Deporting 50,000 Jews to Death Camps

Nuremberg, May. 27 (JTA) –

U.S. Prosecutor Thomas Dodd today confronted Baldur von Schirach, former gauleiter of Vienna and one-time Nazi youth leader, with documents proving that he had arranged for the deportation of 50,000 Jews to extermination camps in Poland. Dodd submitted to the International Military Tribunal the minutes of a meeting of Hitler, Hane Frank, then gauleiter of Poland, and Schirach, at which Schirach asked Frank to accept 50,000 Viennese Jews.



Schirach denied that he knew what had happened to the deportees, stating that he believed the older people were sent to Theresienstadt, while the younger ones were sent to Poland. Dodd interrupted, declaring: "You know that the Jews were taken to Riga and Minsk and annihilated."



Dodd quoted from 55 reports submitted to Schirach in 1942 by Reinhard Heydrich, who was at the time deputy chief of the Gestapo, giving full details of the massacre of he deported Jews. The prosecutor remarked that "your memory is very bad today," when the former youth leader said that he could not remember having seen the reports.



The Russian prosecutor following Dodd, submitted excerpts from an affidavit by Ida Wassotom, a Jewish resident of Lemberg, relating how members of the Hitler youth groups, which Schirach directed, had participated in the murder of hundreds of Jews in that city. Uniformed youths, armed with knives and pistols, she said, reamed the streets, breaking into homes to search for hidden Jews and killing Jewish men and women on the streets.



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"Nazi Youth Leader Charged at Nuremberg Trial with Deporting 50,000 Jews to Death Camps." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 28 May 1946.