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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2009 23(2):239-262; doi:10.1093/hgs/dcp032
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The Chameleon of Trawniki: Jack Reimer, Soviet Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust

Eric C. Steinhart

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


  Abstract

The crimes and transformations of Jack Reimer, a heavily-implicated ethnic German Holocaust perpetrator, are examined in the following article. Within little more than a generation, Reimer refashioned himself from repressed farmer to Red Army lieutenant; from Soviet POW in German captivity to senior non-commissioned officer at the SS Training Camp in Trawniki, Poland; and finally from wanted war criminal to upstanding American citizen. This article argues that for one ethnic German perpetrator, participation in the Holocaust served as a vehicle for negotiating Eastern Europe's dangerous wartime multiethnic milieu.


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