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Re: Deportations of Immigrants - Palmer Raids in 1919-1920
Susan Stark May 30, 2017 5:56 AM (in response to Susan Stark)We found this short newspaper article from 1921:
Deportation - New York Herald - Jan 1921 - Joel Stark - column 2 - middle section
We still would like to found where in Russia he ended up. But we are pretty sure that he became a commissar and probably would have been shot as a a result of the "Commissar Order":
"Volume 7. Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Directives for the Treatment of Political Commissars (“Commissar Order”) (June 6, 1941)
...the so-called Commissar Order, which instructed the German military leadership – in clear violation of international law – to engage in the systematic persecution and murder of Soviet political commissars, sealed the cooperation of the Wehrmacht with the annihilation campaign of the SS. Hitler’s formal repeal of the order on March 6, 1942 – partly an attempt to accommodate the opposition of some military commanders – did not change anything about the way Germany conducted war during “Operation Barbarossa.”
Any idea about how to actually track him from 1921 until 1941 (probably) would be appreciated.
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks