Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus

Waitman Beorn

doi:10.2307/j.ctv47wb5x.17

Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus

Waitman Beorn

Humanities Department

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Abstract

On an overcast thursday afternoon in september 1941, the jews of Krupki in central Belarus wound their way out of town, across the highway. One of the German soldiers driving them to their deaths was twenty-year-old Private Walter Kartelmeier. He noticed a small child whose pants had fallen down around his ankles. Though his mother tried to help him keep up, the child was in danger of being trampled by those behind. Kartelmeier pulled the mother and child out of line and allowed her to pull up his pants. They then rejoined the column and were soon shot in an...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lessons and Legacies XI
Subtitle of host publication	Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World
Editors	Karl Schleunes, Hilary Earl
Place of Publication	Chicago
Publisher	Northwestern University Press
Pages	292-306
Volume	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9780810130920
ISBN (Print)	9780810130913, 9780810130906
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv47wb5x.17
Publication status	Published - Oct 2014

Publication series

Name	Lessons and Legacies

Keywords

History
Methodology
Holocaust
Testimony
Spatial History
Geography
Nazism
World War II

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Beorn, W. (2014). Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus. In K. Schleunes, & H. Earl (Eds.), Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World (Vol. 11, pp. 292-306). (Lessons and Legacies). Northwestern University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv47wb5x.17

Beorn, Waitman. / Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished : Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus. Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. editor / Karl Schleunes ; Hilary Earl. Vol. 11 Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2014. pp. 292-306 (Lessons and Legacies).

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Beorn, W 2014, Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus. in K Schleunes & H Earl (eds), Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. vol. 11, Lessons and Legacies, Northwestern University Press, Chicago, pp. 292-306. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv47wb5x.17

Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus. / Beorn, Waitman.
Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. ed. / Karl Schleunes; Hilary Earl. Vol. 11 Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2014. p. 292-306 (Lessons and Legacies).

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Beorn W. Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus. In Schleunes K, Earl H, editors, Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. Vol. 11. Chicago: Northwestern University Press. 2014. p. 292-306. (Lessons and Legacies). doi: 10.2307/j.ctv47wb5x.17

Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus

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