HIST250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nuremberg Laws, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Jewish Question
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The jewish holocaust, part 4 (cid:862)fi(cid:374)al olutio(cid:374) of the je(cid:449)ish questio(cid:374)(cid:863) Ss group following the german army were in charge of getting rid of jews in occupied areas and would take them to locations and commit mass shootings. As many jews were killed by mass shooting as were killed in gas chambers. July 1941 hiedrick told he needs to come up with a final solution to the jewish question. Known to germans as complete destruction of european jewry how to kill the most. After resettling them in the ghettos there is overcrowding in the ghettos. This leads to the gassing and mass destruction of jews. Pre-war the goal was to make them leave germany. Could(cid:374)"t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)e the sa(cid:373)e i(cid:374) wester(cid:374) europe as they did i(cid:374) easter(cid:374) europe. Fall of 1941 hitler orders deportation of jews from western/central europe to the east. Purpose was to kill jews on arrival by gassing.