Germany and the occupied territories during ww2
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- Germany and the occupied territories during WW2
- Ghettos -
- when Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 - they built ghettos
- walled off, guarded, parts of cities where jews were forced to live
- In warsaw, 380,000 jews (30% of the population) were forced into less than 3% of the city
- by 1942 - 50,000 had died from hunger, cold or disease
- Death squads -
- 1939-41 = they followed the german army into Poland and USSR, and killed any civilians who the Nazis though 'undesierable"
- by 1945 = 1.5 million, jews, gypsys and more were killed
- The final solution =
- by '41, the treatment of the jews were fiercely debated among nazi leaders
- there main concern was cost
- some believed they were cheap labour for the war
- others thought that those running ghettos were needed in the army
- jan '42 - agreed that they would be sent to camps
- The home front -
- from 1939-42 - life in germany was relatively undisturbed by the war
- morale was good and standard of living was high
- 1942- it all changed
- morale fell as german attack on USSR failed
- standards of living fell (food shortages)
- huge bomb attacks on german cities
- 'Total war' =
- feb '43 - 94,000 german soldiers surrendered
- 18 feb - Goebbels made a radio speech calling on all germans to show the allies they were not defeated or worn out
- everything was to give way to war productions-
- longer working hours
- all women 17-45 to work
- bars, clubs, luxury shops and restaurants to shut
- more rationing
- travel restrictions
- Bombing -
- 3.6 million homes destroyed
- 7.5 made homeless
- 300,000 - 400,000 civilians killed
- july '43 - 50,000 german civilians died in one week
- Opposition to hitler -
- as war went badly, opposition grew
- Nazis arrested or killed anyone found passion info out of the country, or helping the allies
- opposiiton grew as policies about freedom of speech, religion and jews became more extreme
- Edelweiss pirates -
- an anti-nazi youth group
- there were around 2000 by '39
- after bombing increased and morale fell - made them more daring
- smashed factory eqipment to disrupt war production and stole guns and explosives
- Himmler ordered a crackdown - hundreds arrested
- some were hung as a result of anti-nazism
- Ghettos -
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