Anfänge der Menschenvernichtung in Auschwitz, Oktober 1941 eine Erwiderung auf Jan Erik Schulte

Anfänge der Menschenvernichtung in Auschwitz, Oktober 1941 : eine Erwiderung auf Jan Erik Schulte

There is firm evidence that the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was planning a factory-like system of the murder of the European Jews in October of 1941. This should be no surprise. At precisely this time the SS was seeking semi-mechanized means of murder everywhere else in eastern occupied...

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Veröffentlicht in:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. - [Berlin] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 1953. - 51(2003), 4, Seite 565-573
1. Verfasser: Allen, Michael Thad (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Schulte, Jan Erik
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:German
Veröffentlicht: 2003
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
Schlagworte:Geschichte Drittes Reich Nationalsozialismus Völkermord Judenvernichtung Deutschland Weltkrieg II Menschenrechtsverletzungen Völkermord/Genozid Holocaust/Judenvernichtung mehr... Third Reich Germany World War II human rights violations genocide persecution of Jews/Holocaust Judenverfolgung
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Zusammenfassung:There is firm evidence that the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was planning a factory-like system of the murder of the European Jews in October of 1941. This should be no surprise. At precisely this time the SS was seeking semi-mechanized means of murder everywhere else in eastern occupied Europe. Evidence that genocide was planned at Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1941 casts doubt upon recent arguments advanced in Holocaust studies and contemporary German history which seek to push the date for a "Gesamtlösung" or "Final Solution" to the Jewish Question well into the spring/summer of 1942. This scholarship is characterized here as "Neo-Functionalism". Jan Erik Schulte's recent article in VfZ is typical of this Neo-Functionalist approach. He argues that no coherent plan for the murder of the European Jews can be presumed any earlier than May 1942, at least at Auschwitz. There can be no doubt that the implementation of genocide was irregular and fraught with contradictions. This was true at Auschwitz as elsewhere. Yet when the history of the Holocaust at Auschwitz is put in proper perspective, what impresses is the overwhelming push throughout the entire apparatus of the SS to achieve the mechanized means of genocide by October of 1941. This implies a higher level of resolve and coordination than Neo-Functionalist interpretations can account for. (Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte / FUB)
ISSN:0042-5702