Task Force Egypt

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Walther Rauff

The Einsatzgruppe Egypt was a special unit of the SS . According to the historians Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers , the aim was to carry out the mass murder of Jews in the British Mandate Palestine , analogous to the action of the Einsatzgruppen as in Eastern Europe . The Egyptian Task Force was on standby in Athens in the summer of 1942 . From here she was to be relocated to Palestine for use in order to join the Africa Corps (DAK) under the leadership of General Erwin Rommel . The task force in the Middle East should be led by SS-Obersturmbannführer Walther Rauff . The National Socialist plans to exterminate the oriental Jews, especially in Palestine, could not be implemented, however, because the advance into Egypt and Palestine was a long way off after the Axis' defeat in the second battle of El Alamein . According to the Israeli historian Haim Saadon, there was no explicit plan of extermination: Rauff's documents show that he was primarily concerned with helping the Wehrmacht to victory, and in doing so he developed the idea of ​​setting up forced labor camps .

literature

  • Coppers; Mallmann: Crescent and swastika. The Third Reich, the Arabs and Palestine (= publications by the Ludwigsburg Research Center of the University of Stuttgart). 8. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-19729-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerry van Tonder: SS Einsatzgruppen: Nazi Death Squads, 1939–1945 . Pen and Sword, 2018, ISBN 978-1-5267-2910-1 ( google.de [accessed June 13, 2019]).
  2. ^ Paul R. Bartrop, Eve E. Grimm: Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators . ABC-CLIO, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4408-5897-0 ( google.de [accessed June 13, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Crescent moon and Swastika: The Third Reich, the Arabs, and Palestine (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
  4. ^ Yad Vashem - Request Rejected. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Nazis planned Holocaust for pre-state Israel ( Israel News 04-08-06)
  6. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: SS murder command was ready for Palestine . April 7, 2006 ( welt.de [accessed June 13, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Hitler's death squad in front of Palestine Spectacular find by German historians: Like the SS the Jews. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Benishay, Guitel (May 4, 2016). "Le journal de bord du chef SS en Tunisie découvert". Création Bereshit Agency. LPH info - Création Bereshit Agency. Retrieved June 08, 2017.
  9. ^ Cohen, Nir (April 17, 2015). "Inside the diary of SS officer known as gas chamber 'mastermind'". Yedioth internet. Ynetnews. Retrieved July 11, 2017.