Deportation
People usually associate the deportation of Jewish citizens with the “Final Solution.” This deportation began when the Nazi’s started deporting German Jews in October 1939. 3500 German Jews (not only German Jews, but Jews from all countries annexed by Germany too) were deported and sent to Camps. These deportations were led by Adolf Eichmann, who continued to do this during the entire war.
With Hitler’s authorization, German Nazi’s began systematically deporting Jews from Germany in October 1941, even before the SS had build an working extermination camp .
Between October and December 1941, the Nazi’s deported around 42,000 Jews from Germany to Ghetto’s in Poland.
Afterwards, they deported more than 50,000 Jews from Germany to Ghetto’s in multiple Baltic States between early November 1941 and late October 1942. At first, German Jewish war veterans and German Jewish people above the age of sixty-five were indeed released out of the camps and the Ghetto’s, but after some time they deported almost every Jew, including the elderly and the veterans. In the Ghetto’s in the Baltic states, eventually 30.000 Jews died of different causes, for example starvation or disease.
In May 1943, Nazi German authorities reported that the Reich was “judenrein” (“cleared of Jews”). By this time, fewer than 20.000 Jews still lived in Nazi-Germany, because of the deportations. Some survived because they were married to non-Jews and were left alone by the Nazi’s. These people did often try to save other Jews from being deported.
In all, the Germans and their collaborators killed between 160,000 and 180,000 German Jews in the Holocaust, including most of those Jews deported out of Germany.
With Hitler’s authorization, German Nazi’s began systematically deporting Jews from Germany in October 1941, even before the SS had build an working extermination camp .
Between October and December 1941, the Nazi’s deported around 42,000 Jews from Germany to Ghetto’s in Poland.
Afterwards, they deported more than 50,000 Jews from Germany to Ghetto’s in multiple Baltic States between early November 1941 and late October 1942. At first, German Jewish war veterans and German Jewish people above the age of sixty-five were indeed released out of the camps and the Ghetto’s, but after some time they deported almost every Jew, including the elderly and the veterans. In the Ghetto’s in the Baltic states, eventually 30.000 Jews died of different causes, for example starvation or disease.
In May 1943, Nazi German authorities reported that the Reich was “judenrein” (“cleared of Jews”). By this time, fewer than 20.000 Jews still lived in Nazi-Germany, because of the deportations. Some survived because they were married to non-Jews and were left alone by the Nazi’s. These people did often try to save other Jews from being deported.
In all, the Germans and their collaborators killed between 160,000 and 180,000 German Jews in the Holocaust, including most of those Jews deported out of Germany.