Staatlicher Terror Und Gesellschaftliche Verrohung: Die Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein

Pp. 179-186 discuss the persecution of the Jews. On 9 November 1938 local Gestapo posts received directives concerning measures to be taken against Jews, including the arrest of 20-30,000 Jews throughout Germany. In reality, the local SA and police played a more active role than the Gestapo, initiating attacks and participating in the devastation of synagogues and other Jewish property. Reports on the deportation of 80 Jews from Lübeck and 54 from Kiel to Riga in December 1941. Several smaller deportations of Jews of the area took place up to 1945, and eventually included partners of mixed marriages. Claims that in 1941 Gestapo circles in Kiel still believed that the Jews were being resettled; only after the Wannsee Conference did rumors trickle down concerning the real fate of the Jews.