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German Occupants in Warsaw and the Publicness of the Holocaust
Stephan Lehnstaedt
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl Biohistorian, prof. Ph.D., from 2016 professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Studies at Touro College Berlin. In 2010–2016, an employee of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and a lecturer at the University of Humboldt in Berlin and at the London School of Economics. He published, among other things, a monograph on the everyday life of the German occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, entitled Okkupation im Osten. Besatzeralltag in Warschau und Minsk, 1939–1944 (2010; in 2016 the book was published in English, in 2018 a Polish translation will be available) and a monograph on the action "Reinhardt" entitled Der Kern des Holocaust. Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka und die Aktion Reinhardt (2017; in 2018 it will be published in Polish entitled Czas zabijania. Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka i Akcja Reinhardt).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6894-9587
Touro College Berlin
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 12 (2016), pages: 70-90
Publication date: 2016-11-30
Abstract
In several last years there have been many publications concerning the knowledge and attitudes of Germans in relation to the Holocaust. The author deals with the issue what the civilian population and the military troops stationed at that time in Warsaw knew about the Holocaust. The occupants quickly learned about the massacres of Jews. Precise information spread at a rapid pace, and consequently each of the occupants was well informed of the Holocaust. Very few Germans stationing in Warsaw condemned crimes committed against the Jews. There was consensus on the need of extermination of Jews, some reservations aroused only form in which the genocide was carrying on. Open violence intertwined with its general acceptance, which led to a progressive callousness.
Keywords
knowledge about the Holocaust, Warsaw, occupants, openness
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Other articles by the same auhtor(s)
- Stephan Lehnstaedt, Holocaust in German Scientific Literature in the Last Five Years , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 7 (2011)
