Von der "Judenpolitik" zum Judenmord : der Distrikt Lublin des Generalgouvernements 1939-1944

Based on recently-opened archives, analyzes the phases of annihilation of the Jews in the district of Lublin. The police, the Wehrmacht, and the civil administration cooperated with the SS in this project. Describes shooting of Jews, the establishment of ghettos, economic measures, forced labor, and deportation to Bełżec and Sobibór. Power in the district was in the hands of SS-and-police commander Odilo Globočnik, who carried out the policy of the SS commander of the General Government, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, and of Himmler, but he was largely independent in its execution. Globočnik also had under his command POWs trained in the camp he established at Trawniki, who were noted for their brutality. He and his team were called upon, on the basis of their experience in Lublin, to carry out the deportations from the Warsaw ghetto in the summer of 1942. Argues that by late 1942 all those involved in the deportations must have been aware of the fate awaiting the Jews. In November 1943, 42,000 Jews in Majdanek and forced labor camps were shot in "Operation Erntefest". Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index. 208 pages ; 21 cm