Order and Disorder on the Eastern Front: The 14th Infantry Division at the Beginning of Operation “Barbarossa”
Order and Disorder on the Eastern Front: The 14th Infantry Division at the Beginning of Operation “Barbarossa”
Author(s): Marius CazanSubject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Social history, Nationalism Studies, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studierea Holocaustului din Romania ELIE WIESEL
Keywords: Judeo-Bolshevism; Bessarabia; Gheorghe Stavrescu; Ion Antonescu; Holocaust by bullets;
Summary/Abstract: Stationed in Iași during the Pogrom of 1941, later advancing into Bessarabia and crossing the Dniester River towards Odessa, the 14th Infantry Division supervised and coordinated the advance of its units through regions where many localities were home to large Jewish communities. This study aims to analyze the way in which this large military unit of the Romanian Army trained and mobilized its own units immediately after the withdrawal from Bessarabia and Bukovina in the summer of 1940, until the start of the Romanian-German offensive. Another aim is to reconstruct, by using the orders received and issued by the14th Division, the criminal urges or encouraging silences that enabled the destruction of the Jewish communities in Bessarabia and Bukovina.
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
- Issue Year: XIV/2022
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 11-39
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English
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