JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Madagascar Plan
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At first the german decision makers were not sure what to do with so many jews that fell into their hands in 1939. In 1941 was when they adopted the mass murder known as the solution to the jewish problem. From the beginning, they tried to separate polish jews from the rest of the population. All over polish territories, german officials forced jews out of their homes, in villages, small towns and cities and into urban areas called ghettos. Ghettoization was the measure that german authorities developed in late 1939, early 1940. In 1939 and 1940 some nazis were talking about a jewish reservation in the east, near lublin. Others proposed the madagascar plan to ship all of europe"s. Jews off to an island on the coast of africa. Between 1939 and 1941, during the phase of experimentation. 500,000 polish jews died in ghettos and labour camps.
