subject: Internal Deportation and Deportation in the Holocaust History [print this page] Kenneth Wincorn: Internal Importation and Deportation in the Holocaust History by Kenneth Wincorn
Internal deportation
Kenneth Wincorn explains that when it comes to deportation, this can generally happen within a state, when (for example) an individual or a group of people is forcibly resettled to a different part of the country. If ethnic groups are affected by this, it may also be referred to as population transfer. According to Kenneth Wincorn, the rationale is often that these groups might assist the enemy in war or insurrection. For example, the American state of Georgia deported 400 female mill workers during the Civil War on the suspicion they were Northern sympathizers.
During World War II, Volga Germans, Chechens, Crimean Tatars and others in the Soviet Union were deported by Joseph Stalin (see Population transfer in the Soviet Union), with some estimating the number of deaths from the deportation to be as high as 1 in 3. Kenneth Wincorn has learned that the European Parliament recognized this as an act of genocide on February 26, 2004. Many Japanese and Japanese Americans on the West Coast, as well as other Italian American and German American families were forcibly resettled in internment camps inside the United States of America by President Franklin Roosevelt.
Kenneth Wincorn has found that in the 19th century, the federal government of the United States (particularly during the administration of President Andrew Jackson) deported numerous Native American tribes. The most infamous of these deportations became known as the Trail of Tears. American state and local authorities also practiced deportation of criminals, undesirables, union organizers, and others. In the late 19th and early 20th century, deportation of union members and labor leaders was not uncommon during strikes or labor disputes. Kenneth Wincorn believes that the Bisbee Deportation is a good example as well.
Deportation in the Holocaust
Nazi policy deported Jews and Roma from their normal places of residence to extermination camps or concentration camps set up at a considerable distance far from the general society where they were worked and murdered wholesale. The euphemism "deportation", occurring frequently in accounts of the Holocaust in various locations, thus means in effect "sent to their deaths"as distinct from deportations in other times and places, Kenneth Wincorn goes on to explain.
Internal Deportation and Deportation in the Holocaust History
