HIEU 158 Lecture 12: Feb 21 2019
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Rees says that there wasn"t even an organized plan for their deportation. Greater germany consists of everything north of austria and west of russia. Vichy france, the slovak republic, hungary, and romania are dependent or allied on germany. Neutral countries were ireland, portugal, spain, sweden, and switzerland. Not really the us or britain and ireland (had restrictions) 6 million killed in the course of the war. Most of the jews are concentrated in poland and east of it. The least jews are in the mediterranean. Estonia, latvia, and lithuania have extremely high death rates, but not a lot of. 90% of polish jews die in the war and most of the camps are located there. Highest death rates in proportion to the number of jews in the country. Most of the jews in germany and austria got out of the country, but of those that left most resettled in eastern europe. They were then put in ghettos and killed.
