The German Plunder and Theft of Jewish Property in the General Government

Authors

David M. Crowe, Chapman UniversityFollow

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Description

"Th e German conquest of Poland in the fall of 1939 unleashed the full horror of Nazi racial ideals that saw the gradual evolution of policies that ultimately led to the mass murder of 90 percent of prewar Poland’s 3.3–3.5 million Jews. The geographical center for what the Germans would ultimately call the Final Solution—a plan that Alfred Rosenberg explained meant 'the biological eradication of the entire Jewish people'—was the Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (General Government for the Occupied Areas of Poland). Over time, the General Government would become not only Nazi Germany’s principal racial laboratory but also what its leadership considered a 'dumping ground' for those in Europe deemed untermensch or Lebensunwertes Leben ('subhuman' or 'lives unworthy of living'). As such, it would become the site for four of Nazi Germany’s six death camps once the Final Solution became operational in late 1941."

ISBN

9781350007239

Publication Date

12-28-2017

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

City

New York, NY

Disciplines

European History | Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Military History | Political History | Public History | Social History

Comments

In John J. Michalczyk (Ed.), Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg.

Recommended Citation

Crowe, David M. “The German Plunder and Theft of Jewish Property in the General Government.” In Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg, edited by John J. Michalczyk, 157-168. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Copyright

Bloomsbury Publishing