New on dunera.de 19 April 2024

Erich Tichauer was expelled from Germany by the Nazis and deported to Australia by the British despite being categorised as a refugee. He was the leader of the Jewish choir in the Tatura internment camp. He beame an Australian citizen an was best man to Heinz Dehn and Ida Flieder.

Both the Nazis and the Polish government wanted to get rid of the Polish Jews living abroad. The Nazis ended the dispute by arresting 17,000 Polish Jews in October 1938 and deporting them to no man’s land between the two countries. The victims were Ida Dehn’s father and a brother. The “Polenaktion” had even more far-reaching consequences.

During the biographical research, it became apparent that many Jewish men were transferred from Dachau concentration camp to Buchenwald concentration camp on 22 or 23 September 1938. It became apparent that this action by the SS was part of the “Fall Grün” (Green Case) – Hitler’s war plans against the neighbouring Czech Republic – and was closely linked to the “appeasement policy” and the Munich Agreement of 30 September 1938. The sudden mass “influx” also had consequences for the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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