SS-Oberscharführer Walter Kehrer und die "Kaukasier-Kompanie"

Pieper, Henning
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Title SS-Oberscharführer Walter Kehrer und die "Kaukasier-Kompanie" : eine Sondereinheit und ihre Rolle im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1942-1944.
Host Item Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 56,3 (2008) 197-221
Description Traces the career of Kehrer (1912-1992). Born in Helenendorf, a German settlement in the Caucasus, he fled the Soviet Union to Germany in 1930 with a burning hatred of the communists. In preparation for the German invasion of the USSR, he was attached to Einsatzgruppe D, formally as an interpreter
but on his own initiative, he officiated at massacres of Jews in the southern USSR. In the spring of 1942 he became commander of the newly formed Kaukasier-Kompanie, made up of volunteers from the Caucasus who took this way to win their release from prisoner-of-war camps. Between 1942-43, this company carried out massacres of Jews in the whole of the German-occupied part of the Caucasus
in 1943-44, stationed in Lemberg, it participated in the liquidation of labor camps along Durchgangstrasse IV, in the "Erntefest" massacres of labor camp prisoners in the Lublin district, and in the liquidation of the Janowskastrasse concentration camp in Lemberg. Kehrer was put on trial only in the 1970s and served a prison sentence from 1975-79. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Language German
National Library system number 990004677930705171
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