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Volume 5 Western and Northern Europe 1940–June 1942

  • Edited by: Katja Happe , Michael Mayer and Maja Peers
  • In collaboration with: Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Part of the multi-volume work
The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022
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Executive editors: Katja Happe, Michael Mayer, and Maja Peers, with Jean-Marc Dreyfus; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, and Dorothy Mas

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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    Frontmatter

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    Foreword to the English Edition

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    Editorial Preface

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    Introduction

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    Norway

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    Netherlands

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    Belgium

    84
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    Luxembourg

    87
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    France

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    Norway

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    Netherlands

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    Belgium

    407
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    Luxembourg

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    France

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    Glossary

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    Approximate Rank and Hierarchy Equivalents

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    Chronology

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    Abbreviations

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    List of Archives, Sources, and Literature Cited

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    Index

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    Map - Europe, December 1941

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December 31, 2021
eBook ISBN:
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January 4, 2022
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9783110683332
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110687699
eBook ISBN: 9783110687699
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110683332
Keywords for this book
Holocaust; persecution of the jews; Jewish history; Western Europe
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Academics and general public interested in the history of the Holocaust, Germany, and the Jews.
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