HIST 5 Lecture 15: HIST 5- Lecture #15- Northern and southeastern Europe
Document Summary
Hist 5- lecture #15- northern and southeastern europe. Northern and southern zones of yugoslavia, greece, and italy. Cooperation between dutch police and nazi occupation. Dismissal from civil service, registration, and social separation. Nazi authorities control local police, they don"t object. Work in the east meaning deportation order. Westerbork- single transit camp for dutch jewry for interment/holding. A lot of jews manage to hide. No persecution until 1943, in spite of nazi pressure to implement orders for 3 years. This angers german authorities but they still don"t force them to carry out orders. By 1943, they order commander werner best to take action and that deportation of danish jews will begin. Assistant alerts danish authorities, civilians organize rescue to sweden. Over 8000 jews out of denmark to sweden by boats across water. Those who remain are sent to thersidant. Only 2% of danish jews will die. Danish population is small to begin with.
