On this day in 1935 Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws are passed by Reichstag; Jews lose citizenship and civil rights.
Over the next ten years the Nazi annihilation of about 6 million Jews occures(two thirds of the pre-World War II European Jewish population), including 4,500,000 from Russia, Poland, and the Baltic; 750,000 from Hungary and Romania; 290,000 from Germany and Austria; 105,000 from The Netherlands; 90,000 from France; 54,000 from Greece.
Along with the Jews, another 9 to 10 million peopleGypsies, Slavs (Poles, Ukrainians, and Belarussians), homosexuals, and the disabledwere exterminated.
Over the next ten years the Nazi annihilation of about 6 million Jews occures(two thirds of the pre-World War II European Jewish population), including 4,500,000 from Russia, Poland, and the Baltic; 750,000 from Hungary and Romania; 290,000 from Germany and Austria; 105,000 from The Netherlands; 90,000 from France; 54,000 from Greece.
Along with the Jews, another 9 to 10 million peopleGypsies, Slavs (Poles, Ukrainians, and Belarussians), homosexuals, and the disabledwere exterminated.
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I read Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt this summer and was once again dumbstruck at how such a vile and explicitly evil thing occurred.