In what ways did the Nazi try to eliminate the Jews between 1939-1945?

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In what ways did the Nazi try to eliminate the Jews between 1939-1945?

With the war the Nazis had more Jews to deal with as they encountered three million Jews in Poland and many other Jews and Slavs in Russia.  The Nazis obviously wanted to rid the areas they had invaded to create lebensraum for the pure Aryan race so with the borders of foreign countries closed the Nazis had no option but to contain them.  With this failing the Nazis created other ideas such as the Madagascar plan but with the Warsaw Ghetto completed it seemed impractical especially as the non-occupied French and the British took Madagascar in 1942, but what this does again show us, at the start of the war the Nazis had no clear plan to eliminate the Jews.  So this led to the Ghettos, the concentration camps and then the final solution.  

The Ghettos came into use during the early 1940s in an attempt to contain the large amounts of Jews in Poland in very small places.  The ghettos had the Judenrat (Jewish council) they were set to get the Jews to do the Nazis bidding there was little choice if they didn’t they were sent to concentration camps or shot.  There were no schools in the ghettos and the Jews had to set up mock schools to try and provide education to the Jewish children.  There was about 380 000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, which was about 30% of the Warsaw population, in about 2.4% of Warsaw so the conditions were extremely cramped.  When you’re in such a cramped place disease spreads like wildfire.  The amount of people in a ghetto stayed the same because people were getting drawn in all the time and diseases especially Typhoid and starvation was killing people all the time.  The reason Typhoid and starvation was so bad was because, for example, in Warsaw the Jews were only getting on average 253 calories a day.  Also Lodz ghetto 95% of all the apartments had no sanitation, piped water or sewage this was the same for many other ghettos.  They also the ghettos were surround by thick walls to separate the Jews from the Non-Jews.  Another problem faced by the Jews they could work in jobs that made them earn more than 500 Zloty a month which is about £87.53. The Jews couldn’t ride public transport and where only allowed to leave the ghettos with special permits.  The Jews were liquidised from the ghettos because they were created as a temporary solution to the Jewish problem.  In 1942 the main liquidation began in the months July to September where 300 000 Jews were moved from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp this was because of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazis decided to exterminate the Jews.  The other reasons for the liquidation of the ghettos was that disease spread over the walls and non Jewish people found the ghettos depressing as they had to travel through the ghettos because they were situated in the middle of most town and cities.

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The war brought out the Einsatzgruppen who were the death squads and their job in the word of General Erich Von Dem Bach-Zelewski ‘was the annihilation of the Jews, Gypsies, and political commissars’.  Einsatzgruppen translates as ‘task forces’ or ‘intervention groups’ a masquerading name for some of the most brutal Nazis.  They followed the armies around Nazi operated areas and murdered many of the Jews but they also attacked the Communists who they called Untermenschen (sub humans).  The Einsatzgruppen split into four groups Einsatzgruppen A, Einsatzgruppen B, Einsatzgruppen C and Einsatzgruppen D. Einsatzgruppen A operated in the Baltic States ...

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