Why did the German government intern Jews in camps?
It considered Jews a direct threat to national security. (Jews were overwhelmingly represented in Communist subversion.) However, all suspected security risks – not just Jews – were in danger of internment. • What hostile measure did world Jewry undertake against Germany as early as 1933? In March 1933, international Jewish organizations declared an international boycott of German goods. • Did the Jews of the world “declare war on Germany”? Yes. Newspapers around the world reported this. A front-page headline in the London Daily Express (March 24, 1933), for example, announced “Judea Declares War on Germany.” • Was this before or after the “death camp” stories began? This was years before the “death camp” stories, which began in 1941-1942. • What nation is credited with being the first to practice mass civilian bombing? Britain – on May 11, 1940. • How many “gas chambers” to kill people were there at Auschwitz? None. • How many Jews were living in the areas that came under German contr
