Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus

Beorn, Waitman (2014) Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus. In: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. Lessons and Legacies (11). Northwestern University Press, Chicago, pp. 292-306. ISBN 9780810130913, 9780810130906, 9780810130920

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Abstract

On an overcast thursday afternoon in september 1941, the jews of Krupki in central Belarus wound their way out of town, across the highway. One of the German soldiers driving them to their deaths was twenty-year-old Private Walter Kartelmeier. He noticed a small child whose pants had fallen down around his ankles. Though his mother tried to help him keep up, the child was in danger of being trampled by those behind. Kartelmeier pulled the mother and child out of line and allowed her to pull up his pants. They then rejoined the column and were soon shot in an...

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	History, Methodology, Holocaust, Testimony, Spatial History Geography, Nazism, World War II
Subjects:	V100 History by period V200 History by area V300 History by topic
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2019 16:16
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 15:48
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40441

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