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9,000 prisoners of Neuengamme are evacuated to Lübeck due to the advancing British Army, while 3,000 prisoners are murdered and 700 German prisoners remain behind to destroy files and are conscripted into the SS.
In 1933, new German laws forced Jews out of their civil service jobs, university and law court positions, and other areas of public life. In April 1933, laws proclaimed at Nuremberg made Jews second-class citizens.
Resistance was extremely hazardous; reprisals were brutal and indiscriminate. Some chose to collaborate, co-operating with and even joining German armed forces. After liberation, a person’s social status could be profoundly affected by their choice to resist or collaborate during the war.
By March, the Allies were driving the German army back. Tens of thousands of Jews held in the eastern territories were marched towards the heart of Germany so they could not bear witness to the...
The Holocaust was the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing of six million European Jews and millions of others non-aryans. It was implemented and executed under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
On April 1, 1933, a general boycott against German Jews was declared, in which SA members stood outside Jewish-owned stores and businesses in order to prevent customers from entering. Approximately one week later, a law concerning the rehabilitation of the professional civil service was passed.
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5 days ago · The German occupation authorities’ attempts to eradicate the Resistance in most cases merely fanned the flames, due to the Germans’ use of indiscriminate reprisals against civilians. It is generally agreed that by 1944 the Germans had earned the overwhelming antipathy of most of the people in the occupied nations of Europe.