Resistance of the Heart by Nathan Stoltzfus

Author:Nathan Stoltzfus [Stoltzfus, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Germany, Jewish, Holocaust
ISBN: 9780813529097
Google: EdGtnp24BhwC
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2001-01-15T03:20:49+00:00

The director of the Berlin Gestapo’s Jewish Desk Criminal Commissioner Walter Stock.

By late February rumors of a massive arrest of Jews that would include intermarried Jews this time pulsed through the city. Tensions mounted. On February 26 the Berlin Gestapo’s Jewish Desk director Walter Stock attended a meeting with the Wehrmacht’s Armaments Division to discuss the replacement of Jewish workers with forced laborers from Poland and Russia. At noon the same day Moritz Henschel, the chairman of the Jewish Community, appeared under Gestapo orders at the Gestapo’s Jewish Desk on Burgstrasse. The offices were swarming with hundreds of outside police officers in civilian clothing, waiting for further instructions. After waiting anxiously for hours, Henschel was instructed to prepare new task forces and collection centers for arrested Jews. The Gestapo would need five or six first-aid stations, with Jewish nurses, and a number of secretaries, with typewritters. All these instructions led Henschel to the inevitable conclusion: “An evacuation of large proportions” was imminent.85

Goebbels voiced misgivings in advance about trying to force the separation of families, as he engaged Hitler’s SS division. He hoped the show of “brawny force” by the SS Leibstandarte Hitler during an arrest action carried out in “grand style” would stifle any outcry the deportation of intermarried Jews might cause. But he worried that following the German disaster at Stalingrad, with the regime pushing for new efforts from the home front, the time was not exactly right for resolving this domestic problem with force.86

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