Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Historiography and Popular Understandings
- 2 Ghetto: The Source of the Term and the Phenomenon in the Early Modern Age
- 3 Ghetto and Ghettoization as Cultural Concepts in the Modern Age
- 4 The Nazis' Anti-Jewish Policy in the 1930s in Germany and the Question of Jewish Residential Districts
- 5 First References to the Term “Ghetto” in the Ideological Discourse of the Makers of Anti-Jewish Policy in the Third Reich (1933–1938)
- 6 The Semantic Turning Point in the Meaning of “Ghetto”: Peter-Heinz Seraphim and Das Judentum im osteuropäischen Raum
- 7 The Invasion of Poland and the Emergence of the “Classic” Ghettos
- 8 Methodological Interlude: The Term “Ghettoization” and Its Use During the Holocaust Itself and in Later Scholarship
- 9 Would the Idea Spread to Other Places? Amsterdam 1941, the Only Attempt to Establish a Ghetto West of Poland
- 10 Ghettos During the Final Solution, 1941–1943: The Territories Occupied in Operation Barbarossa
- 11 Ghettos During the Final Solution Outside the Occupied Soviet Union: Poland, Theresienstadt, Amsterdam, Transnistria, Salonika, and Hungary
- 12 Summary and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - The Invasion of Poland and the Emergence of the “Classic” Ghettos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Historiography and Popular Understandings
- 2 Ghetto: The Source of the Term and the Phenomenon in the Early Modern Age
- 3 Ghetto and Ghettoization as Cultural Concepts in the Modern Age
- 4 The Nazis' Anti-Jewish Policy in the 1930s in Germany and the Question of Jewish Residential Districts
- 5 First References to the Term “Ghetto” in the Ideological Discourse of the Makers of Anti-Jewish Policy in the Third Reich (1933–1938)
- 6 The Semantic Turning Point in the Meaning of “Ghetto”: Peter-Heinz Seraphim and Das Judentum im osteuropäischen Raum
- 7 The Invasion of Poland and the Emergence of the “Classic” Ghettos
- 8 Methodological Interlude: The Term “Ghettoization” and Its Use During the Holocaust Itself and in Later Scholarship
- 9 Would the Idea Spread to Other Places? Amsterdam 1941, the Only Attempt to Establish a Ghetto West of Poland
- 10 Ghettos During the Final Solution, 1941–1943: The Territories Occupied in Operation Barbarossa
- 11 Ghettos During the Final Solution Outside the Occupied Soviet Union: Poland, Theresienstadt, Amsterdam, Transnistria, Salonika, and Hungary
- 12 Summary and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The time has come to drive this rabble into ghettos, and then epidemics will erupt and they'll all croak.
Heinrich Himmler, November 1939A horrid Jewish hole.
From a report by a German military unit that participated in the invasion of Poland, October 8, 1939The Jew, who crawled out of the dark corners of the ghetto into the surrounding German neighborhoods and gnawed at the body of the nation, like maggots in meat, has been tamed. He has been sent back to the place he came from, before his usury brought him such enormous profits that he could move into a nicer house and even be the landlord of German tenants. The Jewish game is over.…Now the Jews have been tamed in Łódź and the time has come when the yellow Star of David will no longer shine in German neighborhoods.
Lodscher Zeitung, February 11, 1940There is no doubt that after the meeting in Göring's office, and in advance of the invasion of Poland, which would constitute a new stage in Germany's territorial expansion (and, in retrospect, the start of World War II), there was a conscious change in the mindset of the Nazi leaders and their minions. The earlier territorial acquisitions had been defined as steps toward the unification of all German speakers; now the time had come to seize a German Lebensraum in the East – a stage in the colonization of Europe, to be followed by expansion into Asia.
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- The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust , pp. 61 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011