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Jews in Nazi Germany didn't have a lot of options, and many of them had trouble leaving the country even if they wanted to.
Transcript
- 00:01
No when hitler came to power in germany in nineteen
- 00:05
thirty three thousands of jews read the writing on the
- 00:08
wall in bid al veeder saying to their homeland some
- 00:11
of these immigrants moved to places like belgium and the
- 00:13
netherlands where they would be rounded up and shipped off
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- 00:16
to concentration camps Not ten years later thanks belgium and
- 00:20
the netherlands other german jews decided to move farther away
- 00:23
much much farther away We're talking like to the other
- 00:26
side of the planet anywhere in europe was way too
- 00:30
close to hitler While hitler was thrilled to see jews
- 00:32
taking his less than subtle hints about their future in
- 00:35
germany to heart he didn't try to make the immigration
- 00:38
process easy to ensure even more jews would leave Instead
- 00:42
the nazis stripped anyone who wanted out from under their
- 00:44
thumb of property and wealth Only then could they legally
- 00:49
leave germany and there were other obstacles for german jewish
- 00:52
immigrants as well In nineteen twenty for the u s
- 00:55
decided it would only take twenty seven thousand immigrants from
- 00:58
germany and austria annually But guess what way more people
- 01:03
than that we're looking to escape hitler in fact by
- 01:05
nineteen thirty nine There were more than three hundred thousand
- 01:07
jews waiting to get the immigration a okay from uncle
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sam President franklin delano roosevelt recognized that his country and
- 01:16
others weren't doing a good job of getting jews out
- 01:18
of germany So nineteen thirty eight fdr organized a conference
- 01:21
for more than thirty countries in the hope that everyone
- 01:23
would sit down and sing kumbaya and up their immigration
- 01:27
quotas Unfortunately the conference was a failure Anti semitism and
- 01:31
isolationism were simply too entrenched in many countries Also people
- 01:35
just couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that the
- 01:37
nazis were displaying genocidal tendencies It was easier to believe
- 01:42
that all those stories about the nazis being naughty were
- 01:45
exaggerated or just untrue Well about nineteen forty one the
- 01:49
majority of germany's jews had managed to leave the country
- 01:52
for friendlier climes This still meant that hitler had more
- 01:55
than one hundred thousand jews within his borders to deal
- 01:57
with a solution Shove them all into ghettos Ghettoes have
- 02:01
been around for centuries At this point they were basically
- 02:04
the real estate where society's dumped the people they wanted
- 02:06
to isolate and persecute while jews could come and go
- 02:09
Freely into business with christian populations from the european ghettos
- 02:13
of old the setup the nazis had going was not
- 02:16
nearly so nice There was a lot less freedom and
- 02:18
a whole lot more death due to starvation and disease
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Of course the ghettos were only a temporary answer to
- 02:24
hitler's Jewish question His permanent response was the systematic eradication 00:02:29.218 --> [endTime] of millions of people Oh boy
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