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The Nazi persecution of the Jews culminated in the Holocaust, in which
approximately 6 million European Jews were deported and murdered during
the Second World War. On May 19, 1943, Germany was declared judenrein
(clean of Jews; also judenfrei: free of Jews). It is believed that
between 170,000 and 200,000 German Jews were killed. Many Jews were
shielded from the labour camps by other German traders, unsympathetic to
the Nazis and their policies. Approximately 150,000 German Jews had served in the German Wehrmacht, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals. A great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the race of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers. |
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 Map showing the distribution of Jews in the German Empire in the 1890s |
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