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"The
Escalation of German-Rumanian Anti-Jewish Policy after the Attack on
the Soviet Union"
The article
deals with the deportation of Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia, the
massacre near the Yampol Bridge (over the Dniester River), and the
exploitation of Jewish forced labor on the construction of the
German DG-4 highway. Utilizing newly-discovered documentation in
archives in the former Soviet Union, the article attempts to
navigate the complex weave of involvement in anti-Jewish measures in
these areas that included Einsatzgruppe D, the Wehrmacht, the
Rumanian army, and the Rumanian secret service. It was the last of
these that actually initiated anti-Jewish actions, and the Rumanian
army pushed thousands of Jews into German-held territory. The
resulting power struggle between the Germans and the Rumanians over
the Jews' whereabouts and fate indicates that the Jews in 1941 were
viewed as an expendable mass to be exploited and that they were not
murdered as part of a systematic annihilation plan. |
