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"Hans
Krueger and the Murder of the Jews in the Stanislawow Region
(Galicia)"
The author
attempts to answer the oft-repeated question: What was the role of
the occupying framework and the individual perpetrator in the
implementation of the "Final Solution"? Pohl examines with
painstaking care each stage in the process of isolation,
categorization and annihilation of some 70,000 Jews in the
Stanislawow area, and the dispatch of a further 12,000 to
extermination camps. The operation was carried out during a 16-month
period by the Stanislawow border police under Hans Krueger, with a
staff of SS men and policemen assisted by Ukrainian auxiliaries.
Krueger's devotion to his task is evident from the fact that at the
beginning of August 1941, while Stanislawow was still under
Hungarian rule, he carried out the first mass killing there. When
preparations for the "Final Solution" in the Galicia
district were complete, Kr?ger was the first to implement mass
shootings of Jews. According to Pohl, Kr?ger was a typical member of
the Sipo staff posted in the occupied areas of Poland and the Soviet
Union, who took an active part in organizing mass murders and their
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