Talk:Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle
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Heimat ins Reich ?
editWasn´t the slogan : Heim ins Reich
Role in The Holocaust
editA VoMi unit, Sonderkommando R(ussland), institutional successor to Einsatzgruppe D in the Transnistria area, carried out numerous massacres of Jews during the first half of 1942. The victims were deportees from Rumanian-controlled territory, it being Marshal Ion Antonescu's policy to racially "cleanse" the Rumanian nation. His preferred technique was to expell them to German-controlled territory and have the responsible SS/Police units exterminate them. Many of these Jews were passed back and forth for weeks before a mix of Sk-R units and ethnic German Selbstschutz militia killed them.
Most of these murders occurred in the County (Judetul) of Berezovca, where ethnic Germans, distributed among 40 or so villages, made up 40% of the population. Sk-R was commanded by SS-Standartenfuher Horst Hoffmeyer, a senior VoMi officer. His HQ was in Landau, located west of the River Bug. Apparently, the unit was divided into seven local offices, three of which were:
- Worms - commanded by SS-Obersturmfuhrer Streit
- Lichtenfeld - SS-Obersturmfuhrer Franz Liebl
- Rastatt - SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Rudolf Hartung
Liebl's unit, for example, was responsible for the massacre of 1,200 Jews at Suha Verba in early June 1942.
Slightly more detail on this can be found in Andrej Angrick's paper in Yad Vashem Studies XXVI (1998), pp 232-234. Perhaps oddly, Radu Ioanid's "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" does not cover Sk-R, nor does Valdis O. Lumen's book dedicated to VoMi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FiftusTheSixth (talk • contribs) 16:26, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Bad ISBN
editBecause it is causing a Checkwiki error #70: "ISBN with wrong length", I removed the ISBN from the entry:
Zaffiri Gabriel, Ahnenerbe, the Academy of sciences of the SS, Nicholas Calabria Publisher, Pacts (ME), 2004 ISBN 978-8888-010458-101
I have tried unsuccessfully to locate the correct ISBN on the Internet. No references anywhere to either the author or the title. Knife-in-the-drawer (talk) 16:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)