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A Fatal Balancing Act

eBook - The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945

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ISBN/EAN: 9781782380283
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 454 S.
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Beschreibung

In 1939 all German Jews had to become members of a newly founded Reich Association. The Jewish functionaries of this organization were faced with circumstances and events that forced them to walk a fine line between responsible action and collaboration. They had hoped to support mass emigration, mitigate the consequences of the anti-Jewish measures, and take care of the remaining community. When the Nazis forbade emigration and started mass deportations in 1941, the functionaries decided to cooperate to prevent the worst. In choosing to cooperate, they came into direct opposition with the interests of their members, who were then deported. In June 1943 all unprotected Jews were deported along with their representatives, and the so-called intermediaries supplied the rest of the community, which consisted of Jews living in mixed marriages. The study deals with the tasks of these men, the fate of the Jews in mixed marriages, and what happened to the survivors after the war.

Autorenportrait

Beate Meyer is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg, Germany and is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hamburg. She has been a Fellow at the International Institute of Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem/Jerusalem (2000/2001) and the USHMM (2010). Recent publications includeJews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation (co-edited, University of Chicago Press 2009).

Inhalt

Abbreviations in the Text and Notes
List of Tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: From Forced Emigration to Assisting with the Deportations

Chapter 1.Created in Chaos

Pogrom as Prelude: November 1938Looking Back at the History of the Reich Representation of German Jews, 1932-1938Between Reich Representation and Reich Association: Adaptation Under Duress

Chapter 2. Forced Emigration

Orderly Emigration or Flight at Any Cost? Legal or Illegal?  Emigration to Palestine(Aliyah)To Emigrate or Stay On? Functionaries Between Duty, Responsibility and Self-OverestimationLosing sight of the big picture for the sake of something smallerThe Conflict overRescuing the Polish Jews 1939/40

Chapter 3.The Territorial Solution: Reservations for Jews and Early Deportations

Jewish Reservation LublinThe Madagascar PlanThe Deportation of the Jews from Baden and Saarpfalz

Chapter 4. Welfare

Interim Summary

Part II: Walking on a Thin Line  The Participation of the Reichsvereinigung and the Berlin Jewish Community in the Time of the Deportations

Chapter 1. Decision on a Basic Principle: Avoid Hardship, Participate in Partial Operations

Clinging to a Lost Life WorldStraying from the path or legal work in the underground32(Baeck)? Preparatory Tasks Executed by the RVChanges in Tasks and Structures (1941-1943)New Task: Compilation of Personal Data and Card File SystemsA New Imposed  Challenge: Setting Up and Maintaining Assembly Camps for DeportationsAnother New Task: Collecting DeporteesOther Supplementary Assistance Postal ServicesSocial Work as Exemplified in Care for ChildrenThe Limited Possibilities of the Reichsvereinigung  to Influence the DeportationsThe Reichsvereinigung as Employer and a Protective Space for Functionaries and Staff

Chapter 2. Every Day More Terrifying News  The Year 1942

Repercussions of the Arson Attack on the Nazi Propaganda Exhibition The Soviet ParadiseSocially Acceptable Deportations? Destination TheresienstadtThe Daily Round of Work under Threat of ArrestThe Community Operation in October 1942The Time of Brunner 

Chapter 3.The Stepwise Liquidation of the Reichsvereinigung (1943)

Deportation of the Leading FunctionariesThe great inferno. The Factory Action(Temporary) Closure of the Business Offices
 

Chapter 4. Theresienstadt  as a New Field of Activity of the German-Jewish Functionaries

A Veritable Army of OfficialsThe Bitter End of Activity by Functionaries in TheresienstadtKnowledge among the German-Jewish Functionaries about the Murder of the JewsInterim Summary

Part III: The Psychological Environment (Hilberg) in the Countryside. Latitude forAction by Jewish Functionaries in the District Branches

Chapter 1. The District Branches

Structure and Motivation of the Jewish FunctionariesThe TasksMitigating the Plight, Dissemination of Prohibitions and Social DiscipliningJudenhäuser and Barracks SettlementsPreparatory Arrangements for the Deportations

Chapter 2.A Troubled Relationship: The District Branches and the RV Central Office
 

Chapter 3. The District Branches and the Deportations

Brief Digression: Preparations for Deportation by the Gestapo

Chapter 4. A Comparative Look at District Branches

Frankfurt am Main.  The System of Organized Arbitrary ActionMunich. Hatred of Jews in the Gau of Nazi TraditionNuremberg. Uninhibited HordesMainz. Reliable Relations?Hamburg.  Easier Going than Elsewhere?Final Thoughts

 Chapter 5.Strategies for Dealing with the Authorities

 Chapter 6.The Fate of the District Branch Directors

Liquidation of the District BranchesInterim Summary

 Part IV: The Residual Reichsvereinigung

Chapter 1. The Last Compulsory Members: Jews in Mixed Marriages

Chapter 2.Structure and Tasks of the Residual Reichsvereinigung

Director Dr. Dr. Walter LustigOrigin and Motivation of the IntermediariesWork under the Conditions of the Bombing RaidsIntermediaries in Conflict with the Central OfficeLethal Office

 Chapter 3. Vertrauensmänner, Gestapo and Jews in the Final Phase of the War

 Chapter 4. The War is Over Liberation and/or a Horrible End?

Interim Summary
 

Part V:  A Look at Later Developments: The Strategy of Cooperation as anIncriminating Legacy for a New Start

Chapter 1.Proceedings Before a Court of Honor and Employment Bans in Berlin

Chapter 2.Under Suspicion: Former Jewish Functionaries in the Western Occupation Zones and the Fledgling Federal Republic

Chapter 3. Gestapo Collaborators: Former Jewish Functionaries in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR

Chapter 4.Aftermath

The Conflict Surrounding Recha Freiers Let The Children ComeSurviving Functionaries in Jewish OrganizationsSummary

Bibliography
Archival materials cited
Literature and printed sources
Index 

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