Germany’s Persecution of the Jews, Evisceration of Poland, and Exploitation of the Ghettos

This chapter begins a century later, and treats national politics and international relations in the first phase of Nazism following Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Covering the period 1933–1942, it involves the persecution of the German Jews; the evisceration of Poland; the creation of a pseudo-colony—the General Government; and the settlement in the Warthegau of the ethnic Germans from former Poland and the USSR. It concludes with the lethal exploitation and elimination of immigrant German and Polish Jews in ghetto industries—predominantly in Warsaw and Lodz, both of which produced uniforms for the German armed forces in the East.