Volume 5 Western and Northern Europe 1940–June 1942

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Volume 5 Western and Northern Europe 1940–June 1942

In collaboration with: Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Edited by: Katja Happe, Michael Mayer and Maja Peers

Part of the multi-volume work The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110687699

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About this book

In April-May 1940 the German Wehrmacht invaded Northern and Western Europe. The subsequent occupation of Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France brought the Jewish population of these countries – both established residents and refugees – under German control. From autumn 1941 in Luxembourg and from spring/summer 1942 in Belgium, the Netherlands and occupied France, Jews were required to wear the ‘Jewish star’ and many were subjected to forced labour. By mid-1942, deportations from Luxembourg and France to the ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Eastern Europe had already begun, while in the other occupied countries they were imminent. In April 1942 Alfred Oppenheimer, the Jewish elder in Luxembourg, wrote: ‘A dreadful fate hangs over our community again. The worst that can happen has now happened and the Poland transport is a certainty.’ This volume covers Norway and Western Europe during the period from the German invasion to mid 1942 (developments in Denmark for this period are documented in vol. 12) and records how Jews in these parts of Europe were excluded from society and stripped of their rights, livelihoods, and property. Letters and diary entries by the persecuted Jews detail life under German occupation and the attempts by many Jews to emigrate. The sources show how Jewish organizations sought to alleviate the impact of persecution, and how the German occupiers and local collaborators targeted Jews with increasingly stringent measures and clamped down on any form of resistance.

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Author information

Katja Happe, Ladelund Concentration Camp Memorial; Michael Mayer, Academy for Pol. Education, Tutzing; Maja Peers, Neuruppin Museum.

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Foreword to the English Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Academics and general public interested in the history of the Holocaust, Germany, and the Jews.
Pages
- Main content: 916
Illustrations
- Maps: 5
Keywords: Holocaust; persecution of the jews; Jewish history; Western Europe

eBook

Published: December 31, 2021
ISBN: 9783110687699

Hardcover

Published: January 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110683332