According to sources A, B and C, What were ghettos and why were they established by the Nazi's? Make particular reference to the Warsaw ghetto in your answer.

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            According to sources A, B and C, What were ghettos and why were they established by the Nazi’s? Make particular reference to the Warsaw ghetto in your answer.

While writing this essay I will address the question of what Jewish ghettos were and why the Nazi’s established them. In the course of this essay I will use particular reference to, and examine, the sources A, B, and C and will use them in association with my answer.

During the period of 1939 to 1945 the Nazi’s established over 350 ghettos through out Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary. As part of their ‘dream’ to eliminate all of the European Jews, the Nazis adopted a policy which was known as ‘Judenfrei’. Whilst the Nazis conquered Eastern European towns, cities, and even whole countries, the Special Action Groups, under the control of the Nazi SS leaders Himmler and Heydrich, gathered up all the Jews in the whole of Europe, and banished them to cordoned-off areas. From these the Jews had no escape. In such big cities as Warsaw, these ghettos were closed in and walled off so that what was about to become could not be seen from outside its walls.

‘Judenfrei’, after the Wannsee conference of 1942, was greatly accelerated since it was agreed that a ‘final solution’ of the Jewish population, smartly nicknamed the Jewish question or problem, was to become operational. Ghettos were now to be seen as the first stages of the strategy towards the complete elimination of Jews throughout Europe. These were also cunning used for slave labour camps, where the Nazis could go pick out the healthy Jewish men and women make them work to the edge of death for no money what-so-ever. These camps were also mainly used for holding camps before the deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz, the German death camp. Nearly all of the Jews who were sent to the death camps were never to be seen again.

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Inside these camps, the level of good living was atrocious. People were ridding with disease. The conditions were altogether unbearable. With overcrowding as a main problem. These conditions did not even worry the Nazis. In fact it sped up the death of Jews inside these camps. With nearly 13 people cramped into one room! The standard of living could not even be thought about. Before the ‘Final Solution’ came into play, there were 40,000 Jewish poles in Warsaw, after this was working the number of Jews living in Warsaw shot up to a huge number of 500,000. With no ...

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