Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

The mood and dis po si tion of the cit i zens:At the be gin ning of the mil i tary op er a tions against the So vietforces, the Ro ma nian cit i zens wel comed the war with enor mousen ergy and en thu si asm. We are fight ing for the lib er a tion of theoc cu pied ter ri to ries and es pe cially for the de struc tion ofBolshevism. (...) At the time of the dis tur bances of the cur rentyear, June 29-30, the Ro ma nian cit i zens showed a im pla ca bleha tred to wards Jews, as they con sid ered them ex po nents of thein ter nal com mu nist pow ers, which are at tempt ing to de stroy thecoun try and the de feat the al lied forces. They also ac cused theJews of be ing the only mi nor ity to hide and pro tect So viet para -chut ists and ter ror ists. When mea sures were taken by the armyagainst Jews, the Ro ma nian cit i zens unan i mously ap proved ofthe mass-ex e cu tions. They would have liked the ex e cu tions to beon a larger scale, be cause the way these took place, they weak -ened the secret Jew ish forces only to a small ex tent; those Jew -ish el e ments who man aged to es cape are the ones who areca pa ble of car ry ing out acts of ter ror, and sup port ing the com mu -nist move ment.Ha tred against Jews has not weak ened. The anti-Jew ish mea -sures of the au thor i ties prove that the dan ger rep re sented byJews has been rec og nized by the gov ern ment also. Con se -quently, they have be gun to take mea sures against this mi nor ity./.../The cit i zens of Ro ma nia, ir re spec tive of their po lit i cal views, actas one when it co mes to the Jew ish is sue. Ev ery one says that wemay never re ceive an other op por tu nity to fi nally solve the Jew ishis sue for ever. They re ceive en cour age ment from Ger man troops,and from the way in which the Jew ish is sue has been solved inthe re-oc cu pied ter ri to ries. /.../There is a cer tain dis sat is fac tion among Jews, per haps be causesome in fec tious dis eases (ty phoid) have bro ken out in the campswhere we have sent sev eral thou sand of them, a lot of whomhave died.This sit u a tion, in other words the ex clu sion of Jews from a num -ber of spheres of ac tiv ity is caus ing rapid im pov er ish ment; thiscould be dan ger ous, firstly, be cause not even the Jew ish com mu -ni ties can stop the fur ther spread of mis ery. This may cause se ri -ous dis tur bances re gard ing pub lic safety; Jew ish tramps, mostlychil dren and women, whose par ents and hus band have dis ap -peared, have al ready ap peared in the streets. /.../139