Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
53,7 (2005) 609-636
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Asserts that the Nazi decision to enclose the Jews of Warsaw in a ghetto was a gradual one that authorities argued over for almost a year. Considerations in favor of the segregation of Jews were based on their alleged detrimental moral, social, and economic influence, but above all the fear of a typhus epidemic; Jews were dirty and, therefore, carriers of disease. First, the streets and neighborhoods in which many Jews were concentrated were labelled "quarantine zones"; then, more and more Jews were crowded into a "Jewish residence quarter" and sections of fence, later of walls, were put up to obstruct movement in and out. But only in the fall of 1940 was the final course of the wall established, greatly reducing the area of the quarter and encircling it entirely. All the Jews of Warsaw, as well as many expelled from other parts of Poland, were forced to move into this small area; the "quarantine zone" became a ghetto.
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