HIS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Slavs, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Beck
29 Mar 2017
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The holocaust was a systematic campaign of genocide to exterminate the jews and certain other minority groups. 6 million jews and at least 350,000 gypsies or roma died. Other victims included several million soviet pows, poles, ukrainians, and other. By the end of 1941, germany had control over or occupied parts of austria, Czechoslovakia, poland, belgium, the netherlands, northern france, and. Jews were mostly concentrated in poland, the western soviet union, hungary, and romania (7 million) Roma populations were mostly concentrated in southeast europe. Nazi germany propaganda was very much anti-jewish. Until 1941, german policy was to encourage jews to leave german-controlled areas but often had to give up most of their property to obtain an exit visa. Most countries were reluctant to take in german jewish refugees. Nov. 9, 1938: kristallnacht : nazi stormtroopers attacked synagogues and jewish businesses, made it very clear to all remaining jews that they were not safe.
