Initially, it was cited that the Jews were responsible for the spread of disease and sickness, and as the Propaganda took root, the establishment of the ghettos were accepted by the general public as a means to separate them form the unclean, and keep them safe! This of course, was false! The Nazis simply wanted to segregate, control and persecute the Jewish population. Initially, the plan was to eventually deport the Jews and resettle them in Madagascar, however, this plan failed due to the presence of the British fleet, and with the additional 4 million or so Jews under Nazi control due to the movement into Russia, the final solution was agreed, where millions of mainland european Jews would be exterminated.
Definition of a ghetto is a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
Think of the time period and the events that took place; the Jewish people were forced into living like that.
You're probably confused with how the term is regularly used for ex. "He is so ghetto, just look at his car, its trashed".
The Nazis wanted to isolate the Jews from the society and cause a slow death by giving 400 calories per person for a day. It was very cold in the ghettos and diseases spread quickly. Also it was very crowded in the ghettos.
When it became clear that the initial plan to move all of the Jews to the 'General Government' part of Poland an alternative had to be implemented. Creating Jewish quarters in major cities was the solution.
they were closed off because the Nazis did not like the Jews getting to mix with the polish and German people and they did not want the Jews to escape the ghrttos
by sam brabham
they were set up to simply to control the Jews
They were to seporate the Jews from the christein's
So that the Nazis could store and track the Jewish populations in that area.
The Nazis resorted to a system of ghettos because it separated the Jews from the non-Jewish community.
Basically because they were told to.
Horrible!
The ghettos was getting too overcrowded so another solution had to be found for what to do with the Jews.
All non-Jews had to move out.
The Nazis ordered the Jews to move into the ghettos, having first thrown all non-Jews out of the area. There were drastic penalties for failure to move into a ghetto.
Ghettos
At that time they were encouraged to move into the cities, but in particular they had to move to a region called 'General Government'.
The Nazis started to move Jews into ghettos in Poland in November 1939.
Indeed. Jews were in ghettos.
Jews did not agree to be police in the ghettos, they were made to!
Ghettos were the places they kept the Jews. The ghettos were isolated, enclosed communities that the Germans kept the Jews in. Ghettos were where the Jews were forced to live, under horrible conditions.
Yes, what ever Ghettos their were in the Axis state, jews were sent to them
basically as soon as the Germans occupied a country, they would put the Jews into ghettos.