Object ID
2012.1.393
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Files
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Description
Black and white photograph of a man in glasses in Nazi uniform.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski was highly regarded by Hitler for his brutality and improvisational skills. As SS general and general of the Waffen-SS assigned to the Russian front, Bach-Zelewski was a leader of the Einsatzgruppen, and was thus responsible for many atrocities on the eastern front in which he took a personal part. In October 1941, after 35,000 people had been executed in Riga, he proudly wrote "there is not a Jew left in Estonia." He actively participated in massacres of Jews in Minsk and Mogilev in Russia. Bach-Zelewski claimed to have told Himmler that the firing squads were having a deleterious effect on the assassins, after which Himmler consulted about other methods to murder Jews, leading to the focus on gas as a more industrial solution to the Jewish problem.
Dimensions
5 x 7 1/4"
Keywords
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Einsatzgruppen, Waffen-SS, General
Subcollection
Bullets
Recommended Citation
"Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski" (2016). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.393.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1081
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