Theodor Schieder
Theodor Schieder | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 11 April 1908 Oettingen, Bavaria, Germany |
Died | 8 October 1984 Cologne, Germany |
Alma mater | Munich University |
Occupation | Historian |
Theodor Schieder (11 April 1908 – 8 October 1984) was an influential mid-20th century
World War II
Memorandum of 7 October 1939
After Invasion of Poland by Germany Schieder created a memorandum called "Settlement and ethnic questions in the reclaimed areas of Poland" which summarized work of a group dedicated Ostforschung.[4] Deportations of Jews and Poles were justified in the memorandum with the right of the victor, he also warned about "dangers of racial mixing" and "ethnic infiltration".[4] He demanded removal of Jews from Polish cities and liquidation of Polish intelligentsia; only 150.000 Kashubs were suitable for Reich citizenship after a probation period.[4] The memorandum made in autumn 1939 provided information on national issues in contested areas of Polish-German borderlands and demonstrated that a group of historians in Eastern Germany were ready to help Nazis in their goals of ethnic cleansing[10]
Support for Nazi expansion
Schieder also enthusiastically supported the German invasion of Poland and wrote academic papers on Germany's role as a "force of order" and a "bearer of a unique cultural mission" in Eastern Europe.[2] During the war he, along with Werner Conze, gave advice on Lebensraum policies of the Nazi regime in occupied territories in the East, which included theories on dejudaization of towns in Poland and Lithuania.[11]
Cooperation with Gauleiter Erich Koch regarding ethnic policy in conquered territories
In March 1940 Schieder who was director in charge of Regional Office for Postwar History(Landesstelle fur Nachkriegsgeschichte) presented the local
In 1942 Gauleiter Erich Koch expressed thanks to Schieder for his help in Nazi operations in annexed Poland writing: As a director of 'Landesstelle Ostpreußen für Nachkriegsgeschichte' you have provided material that provided significant service in our fight against Poles and continues to help us in establishing new order today in Regierungsbezirke Zichenau and Bialystok.[12]
Post-war
After the war, Schieder settled in
Leading postwar publications
- Schieder, Theodor (ed.) Dokumentation der Vertreibung der Deutschen aus Ost-Mitteleuropa, Bonn 1953 (Documents on the Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern & Central Europe), Bonn: Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees, & War Victims, (following dates may indicate year of English translations rather than original publication):
- vol. 1: Die vertreibung der deutschen Bevölkerung aus den Gebieten östlich der Oder-Neisse (The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1959)
- vol. 2 and 3: Bd. 2. Das Schicksal der Deutschen in Ungarn, Bd. 3. Das Schicksal der Deutschen in Rumanien (The Expulsion of the German Population from Hungary and Rumania, 1961)
- vol. 4: Die Vertreibung der deutschen Bevölkerung aus der Tschechoslowakei (The Expulsion of the German Population from Czechoslovakia, 1960)
- Friedrich der Grosse. Ein Königtum der Widersprüche, Ullstein 1983 (engl: Frederick the Great, Longman publ. 1999)
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-520-23910-4.
- ^ a b c Moeller (2003), p. 57.
- ^ Iggers, George G., and Q. Edward Wang, with contributions from Supriya Mukherjee (2008). A Global History of Modern Historiography. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman. p. 262.
- ^ a b c d e f Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch, German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919–1945, Berghahn Books, 2006, pg. 14,18
- ISBN 978-0-415-30860-1.
- ^ a b Fred Kautz, The German historians: Hitler's willing executioners and Daniel Goldhagen, Black Rose Books Ltd., 2003, pg. 93
- ^ Wolfgang Bialas, Anson Rabinbach, Nazi Germany and the humanities, Oneworld, 2007, pg. xxxvi
- ISBN 9780674022058.
- ^ a b Deborah Barton. From Shaping to Maintaining Post-war Discourse (PDF). University of Toronto. p. 265.
There was no in-depth discussion of the murder of the European Jews. Documents advanced the argument that German crimes were committed by only a handful of zealous Nazis...
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ignored (help) - ^ Lessons and Legacies: New currents in Holocaust research Peter Hayes, Jeffry M. Diefendorff page 192
- ^ Judaism from the Renaissance to Modern Times. Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, vol. 2. Edited by Judit Targarona Borrás and Ángel Sáenz-Badillos. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1999. p. 317.
- ^ Macht – Geist – Wahn: Kontinuitäten deutschen Denkens Götz Aly page 175 Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999
- ISBN 978-3-531-15556-2.