HIEU 158 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Nazi Propaganda, Jewish Question, Tripartite Pact
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The government was allowed to function as it had before. The nazis saw the danes as fellow aryans. The danes had very fertile fields and the nazis needed the wheat. It is clear that during this period, the nazis were focused more on expulsion and exclusion more than extermination. When they took over luxembourg in 1940, they expelled all the jews to france. When they took over belgium, they put anti semitic laws in place. Reactions to the nazis in belgium were mixed. There were many people who opposed the nazi laws and rulings, one being the government-in-exile in london which vowed to protect jewish property. There were many radicals who supported nazi policies and enacted the first real violence against the jews in a pogrom in 1941. The nazis kept the fire dept and the police from intervening. An antisemitic nazi propaganda film that compared the jews to rats.
