The 'Final Solution' in Riga

Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-608-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 530 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 910 g

Reihe: War and Genocide

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists’ policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War. Drawing upon a broad array of sources that includes previously inaccessible Soviet archives, postwar criminal investigations, and trial records of alleged perpetrators, and the records of the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, the authors have produced an in-depth study of the Riga ghetto that never loses sight of the Latvian capital’s place within the overall design of Nazi policy and the all-of-Europe dimension of the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Angrick, Andrej

Klein, Peter

Brandon, Ray

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Chart I

Chart II

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Latvia Caught between Two Dictatorships

Chapter 2. Operation Barbarossa: Preparations for the German Attack on the Soviet Union

Chapter 3. From the Pogroms to the Establishment of the Ghetto

Chapter 4. Securing German Rule in Occupied Riga: The Period of the Large Ghetto for Latvian Jews

Chapter 5. Murder on a Massive Scale: The Murder of the Ghetto’s Latvian Jews

Chapter 6. In Search of Territories for the “Final Solution”: The Road to Riga as a Final Destination for Deportations

Chapter 7. Plans for the Salaspils Camp

Chapter 8. The Deportation of German Jews to Riga

Chapter 9. The Salaspils Camp: A Detention Center with Many Functions

Chapter 10. German Jews Build Salaspils: December 1941–August 1942

Excursus I: SS Major Rudolf Lange and the Wannsee Conference

Chapter 11. The Latvian Labor Market and the Compulsory Deployment of Jews in Riga

Chapter 12. The Utilization of Jewish Assets and the Issue of Ghetto Administration

Chapter 13. Ghetto Life and Forced Labor in Riga in the Spring of 1942

Chapter 14. The Turning Point: Operation Dünamünde at Jungfernhof and in the “Ghetto for Reich Jews”

Chapter 15. Forced Labor and Annihilation in County Commissariat Riga City

Chapter 16. Failed Resistance: The Tin Square Operation, October 1942

Chapter 17. Annihilation Instead of Forced Labor: Himmler’s Struggle against Production Constraints and Armaments Interests in General Commissariat Latvia

Chapter 18. Concentration Camp Kaiserwald and the Barrackings

Excursus II: SS Second Lieutenant Fritz Scherwitz, The Commander at Lenta: A Biographical Sketch

Chapter 19. The Decommissioning of Concentration Camp Kaiserwald, Evacuation, and Liberation

Chapter 20. A New Start and the Search for Justice

Chapter 21. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Angrick, Andrej
Andrej Angrick, a native of Berlin, is a historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. He has published numerous articles about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and co-edited Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999) and Die Gestapo nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann, 2009), as well as Besatzungspolitik und Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe D in der südlichen Sowjetunion 1941–1943 (2003).

Brandon, Ray
Ray Brandon is a freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin. A former editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, English Edition, he is co-editor, with Wendy Lower, of The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization.

Klein, Peter
Peter Klein, a Berlin-based historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture, has published widely on the Holocaust and German occupation in various parts of central and eastern Europe during the Second World War. Klein was the editor of Die Einsatzgruppen in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941/1942 (1997) and a co-editor of Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999). He is the author of “Gettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt” (2009).

Andrej Angrick, a native of Berlin, is a historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. He has published numerous articles about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and co-edited Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999) and Die Gestapo nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann, 2009), as well as Besatzungspolitik und Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe D in der südlichen Sowjetunion 1941–1943 (2003).