Judenfrei
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Judenfrei and judenrein are terms of Nazi origin to designate an area that has been "cleansed" of Jews during the Holocaust. While judenfrei refers merely to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish inh
"Whoever wears this sign is an enemy of our people" – Parole der Woche, 1 July 1942 showing a yellow badge used by the Nazis to identify Jews
Synagogue in German-occupied Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 1939. The inscription in German reads: "This city is free of Jews!"
Advertisement for a café in Tübingen, describing itself as judenfrei
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 N0827 318, KZ Auschwitz, Ankunft ungarischer Juden
The Holocaust
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The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jew
Judenfrei
…free of Jews") and judenrein (German: , "clean of Jews") are terms of Nazi origin to designate an area that has been "cleansed" of Jews during the Holocaust. While judenfrei refers merely to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish inhabitants, the term judenrein (literally "clean of Jews") has the even…
Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected for execution in gas chambers.
View of the Pegnitz River (c. 1900) with the Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg, destroyed in 1938 during the November pogroms
1919 Austrian postcard showing a Jew stabbing a German Army soldier in the back
Territorial expansion of Germany from 1933 to 1941