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The Nazi Occupation. By: Dexter Crain. What's Meant B y I t.
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The Nazi Occupation By: Dexter Crain
What's Meant By It • In 1941, in the midst of World War II, the Germans began their Final Solution for the Jews. At that time there were 10 million Jews in the countries of German-occupied Europe. By 1945, less than half of that number were left alive. The Nazi goal was to exterminate the Jews and rule Europe in an ethnically "pure" German Empire. • At the infamous Wannsee Conference near Berlin 20 January 1942, details of the mass murder plans were discussed. Documents from that conference are still in existence today. They list, country by country, the number of Jews in Europe. Against the entry for Denmark is the figure 5,600 - the inaccurate Nazi estimate of the number of Jews in Denmark. Info found under website www.auschwitz.dk/docu/occupation.htm