Gauleiters Robert Wagner and Joseph Buerckel, the German
administrative heads of the States of Baden and the Pfalz/Saar,
sought to be the first to make their territories Judenrein (free of
Jews). They engineered a massive westward expulsion of over 6,500
Jews to Camp de Gurs, located in unoccupied Vichy France. The event
became known as the Wagner-Buerckel Aktion and was offered by the
Gauleiters as their gift to the Fuehrer in October 1940. The
relocation of Jews to the Gurs internment camp became an
intermediate step when the infamous ?Final Solution? was pronounced
at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. This Nazi annihilation
program triggered yet a second round of transports that would move
the incarcerated Jews from Gurs to the Parisian suburb of Drancy,
an assembly point where the victims faced a final deportation to
the death camp of Auschwitz. The story of this little known tragedy
is told by the author who delves into the background of the
historical events that led to the Aktion. He recounts the impact of
this cataclysm on the area surrounding his boyhood residence in
Germany and relates the tribulations and ultimate fate encountered
by nearly seven-hundred members of his widely located family in the
State of Baden.
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