HIS361H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anne Frank, Only Child, Wannsee Conference
Document Summary
The holocaust in western europe: different, similar, and connected to the east: Anne frank fled nazis to the netherlands. Often used to talk about heroism, the dutch rescue etc. Refugees in the netherlands, the dutch community existing well with christians felt in siege. What were they to do with these people. They worried that incoming jews would attract anti-semantism which it did. It put a burden on a community under extreme stress. The problem extended to gentiles and to jews. Foreign jews and jewish refugees are a big connection between the east and west. In france, netherlands, luxemburg, denmark, norway, belgium etc. the number of jews in all these put together would not exceed 600. In the early 1940s there were hundreds of thousands after all the refugees fled in. French jews with local networks and what that could mean for their survival. Alsace- lorraine territories that moved back and forth between german and french control.